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2nd Lieutenant
- Joined
- Oct 26, 2012
“If you were a Confederate veteran at the end of the war, you weren’t allowed work down South because of the Carpetbaggers,” he said. “If you were a Vietnam veteran in the ’68-to-’69 time frame, you weren’t gonna get a job if you put it on your resume because we were drug addicts and baby killers. I see a lot of parallels.
“I’m a veteran of the Second Civil War,” said Mr. Perkins, who loaded bombs on planes as a sergeant in a ground crew at Da Nang Air Base in South Vietnam in 1966. “They had their Draft Riots, we had Kent State. They had their rebellious people, we had ours. They had people who went to Canada, we had people who went to Canada.”
Us guys here - Union, Confederates - don’t have an agenda,” he said. “Our agenda is, we want to teach history. We want people to think. We want them to remember.”
I believe this is a very good thought and I agree with it completely.I hope one day the image of Confederate soldiers will similarly undergo rehabilitation among the general public.
... I hope one day the image of Confederate soldiers will similarly undergo rehabilitation among the general public...
I believe this is a very good thought and I agree with it completely.
I agree that's a nice, level headed bit of advice. Well thought out.Here's some good advice for those hesitant about continuing on as a Confederate reenactor:
http://www.explicitlyclear.com/wp/has-charlottesville-killed-reenacting
Long story short, stick to the facts when dealing with the public, don't embellish anything, and know that you're not going to change everyone's mind.
I saw the reenactors pictured...terrible impressions.
They are asking the wrong folk! God we have got to have more HISTORY, and lot less "Heritage".
Kevin Dally
If you want to know the differences between a Cincinnati Depot fatigue blouse and a Schuylkill Arsenal blouse, reenactors are an awesome resource. Or, if you want to know how a regiment goes from column into line, again, reenactors are a fairly dependable way to go. But, when it comes to the actual history of the war and its causes, some of the worst interpretation I've ever heard came from the ill-informed mouths of reenactors. When I hear them say "Our agenda is we want to teach history" I only have to remember hearing one guy tell a bunch of eager listeners that Lincoln had been a slave owner before the war. At National Park sites, reenactors are typically limited to engaging with visitors about the material culture of soldiers and their experiences.“If you were a Confederate veteran at the end of the war, you weren’t allowed work down South because of the Carpetbaggers,”
The BS indicator is going wild.
“If you were a Confederate veteran at the end of the war, you weren’t allowed work down South because of the Carpetbaggers,”
The BS indicator is going wild.
I actually I think historians with an agenda, and I say that after reading their sanctimonious and condensing twitter feeds, do more damage than a handful of re-enactors at random event.
That side hates every bit as much as the other and neither does anyone any good.