From: Dave Ball (vought@msn.com)
Date: Thu Oct 10 2002 - 21:30:08 PDT
The Vet was right but you misunderstood his feelings his concept of dying
for freedom is something you obviously have been spared it has nothing to do
with what you can and can not do but what others can do to you because they
do not like your ethnic background or beliefs. And you do not teach War you
teach History and you do not need to dress up and carry guns to do that. And
paintball is just more war games and it serves no purpose except to prove
that many reenact war as recreation for fun and sport.
If the guns were real and you had to bury your dead friends at the end of
the day your feelings on freedom would be much more like the Vets He
probably felt playing war was as dangerous as fighting one even if the
outcome was different and that he fought and his friends died so no one
would have go to war again.
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve & Jeanne Keith" <cckw@attbi.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 8:16 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Reenactors have no right!!! unless they were there
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Ball" <vought@msn.com>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 8:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [MV] Reenactors have no right!!! unless they were there
>
> <snip>
> > why in the hell do
> > you think my Dad went to Europe just so you could find his uniform put
it
> on
> > and let a whole bunch of Germans play war and chase you around for
> children
> > to watch I do not think
> <snip>
>
> A number of years ago, a local M38 owner who was also a WW2 vet went to a
> Planning
> Board meeting that I attended. They were reviewing plans for a paintball
> facility. The neighbors
> were concerned about traffic and noise. There was some concern about the
> paint itself on the
> environment too. The vet stood up and stated 'that he did not fight in WW2
> so that someone
> could run around in the woods shooting paintballs at each other...'
>
> I felt so sad that he fought in a war that could have killed him and yet
he
> had absolutely NO
> concept of what he was fighting for!
>
>
> <snip>
> > I think you need to listen to what you are saying we do not need to
teach
> > our children about War
>
> We definately need to teach War in my humble opinion! If you teach war,
and
> how they start, how horrible they are and how they affect the average
> person,
> you will be teaching children how to both cherish what our Vets have given
> us
> and how to protect it. Teach War and you will learn about Peace...
>
>
> All my WW2 HMVs (that this applies to) have the marking of the 291st
Combat
> Engineers. They built the Bridge at Remargen and they stayed behind at the
> Battle
> of the Bulge to blow bridges and therby hault one of the German
spearheads.
> My
> HMVs are marked (and I explain this to people) to honor these very brave
> men.
>
> Steve
>
>
>
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