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Civil War re-enactment in Manassas canceled amid worries over violence
Richmond Times-Dispatch ^ | Aug 18, 2017 | ANTONIO OLIVO

Posted on 08/21/2017 5:06:29 AM PDT by COBOL2Java

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1 posted on 08/21/2017 5:06:29 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
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The re-enactment should proceed. And the participants should make sure there’s not just powder in the muskets.


2 posted on 08/21/2017 5:08:20 AM PDT by littleharbour
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To: COBOL2Java

The left has won.


3 posted on 08/21/2017 5:09:11 AM PDT by aomagrat (Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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To: COBOL2Java

Where is their SPINE!

Good mercy, they’re bending to these anarchist animals.
This won’t end well!


4 posted on 08/21/2017 5:09:54 AM PDT by Guenevere
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To: COBOL2Java

How much tourism money is generated by reenactments? I know, as a Civil War buff, that I’ve spent money in southern states while looking at various memorials, statues and cemeteries.


5 posted on 08/21/2017 5:11:24 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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Well, remember, they are reenactors not real soldiers.

I knew a Civil War reenactor who insisted people call him “Major.” That stopped when an elderly friend of mine, a vet of WWII, took him down.

6 posted on 08/21/2017 5:12:55 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: COBOL2Java

And what are WWII re-enactors? Shinto warriors trying to win WWII?

http://aredsunrising.weebly.com/

You’d think that the cos-play generation would know that this is all make believe, pew-pew...


7 posted on 08/21/2017 5:16:02 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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The Left is a bunch of Revolution 68 Communists who want to re-enact the Chicago DNC convention.


8 posted on 08/21/2017 5:17:27 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: COBOL2Java

Sadder days ahead for America.


9 posted on 08/21/2017 5:18:38 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: COBOL2Java
Mission Accomplished!


10 posted on 08/21/2017 5:20:42 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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All due respect, but what part of my post suggested or implied I thought they were real soldiers?????

My post was about the bullying tactics of the left!
Straight from Alinsky’s playbook!!

I will never apologize for my Southern ( Confederate) heritage.

....kowtowing to Communist thugs and giving in only allows them to escalate!


11 posted on 08/21/2017 5:23:52 AM PDT by Guenevere
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‘And the participants should make sure there’s not just powder in the muskets.’

yeah, sure; so both re-enactors and spectators are subjected to danger...brilliant...


12 posted on 08/21/2017 5:23:54 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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“...they are reenactors not real soldiers...”

There are reenactors who are military veterans. I am one myself.


13 posted on 08/21/2017 5:24:37 AM PDT by VietVet
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To: Guenevere

Good mercy, they’re bending to these anarchist animals.
This won’t end well!

it already is not ending well, because anarchists will always set the tone...by the time they get reigned in, the damage is done...


14 posted on 08/21/2017 5:25:38 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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The left is winning with the help of our Malignant Media. Is this cancerous trend that’s eating up our nation going to be turned around?

Has there ever been a nation that started on the path of self-destruction and then turned itself around to its founding principles?


15 posted on 08/21/2017 5:25:47 AM PDT by abclily
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To: COBOL2Java

Ignorance is strength


16 posted on 08/21/2017 5:28:34 AM PDT by Flick Lives (#CNNblackmail)
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> Good mercy, they’re bending to these anarchist animals.
This won’t end well! <

Bending to the anarchists is like feeding wild animals. They will be back, demanding more and more.


17 posted on 08/21/2017 5:29:05 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: miss marmelstein

Well, remember, they are reenactors not real soldiers.

thanks, Captain Obvious...anything else...?


18 posted on 08/21/2017 5:29:27 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: COBOL2Java

Never could understand re-enactments
Like the war was some game
It was tragic on both sides


19 posted on 08/21/2017 5:29:42 AM PDT by uncbob
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To: Travis McGee

Bingo!


20 posted on 08/21/2017 5:29:55 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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