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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

An annual Civil War re-enactment in Virginia was canceled Friday after participants shared worries over their safety following the recent violence in Charlottesville.

The two-day event in Manassas, scheduled to start Aug. 25, was meant to share how both Union and Confederate soldiers lived during the Civil War.

The event, which the city began hosting in 2011 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War, has previously featured tent cities set up in the downtown area, an evening ball, and lectures about how the war started and why.

Patty Prince, a Manassas city spokeswoman, said some of the re-enactors called event organizers with worries that the racially charged atmosphere across the country over whether to tear down Civil War monuments would lead to violence.

“It’s just not a good time to have it,” Prince said about the event. “It’s a very sad time in our country.”

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: antifa; blm; dixie; manassas; purge; virginia
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To: ChildOfThe60s

I’m with you in your anger.....

...where do we go for redress?

Our President is enduring by the Grace of God, but they throw filth at him 24/7
Thanks be to God he is not a quitter!

It sickens me what the traitors are getting away with.


41 posted on 08/21/2017 7:00:30 AM PDT by Guenevere
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To: Bonemaker
"the filthy left in general"

I watched the Vice video of the Battle of Charlottsville, and they were interviewing one of the southern generals, the guy with Daily Stormer.

He was very specific and identified "Jewish Communists" and "Criminal Niggers". That was at 6:54 on the tape.

42 posted on 08/21/2017 7:01:47 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: COBOL2Java

This is how nations die. Instead of enforcing the rule of law against these anarchists (lets be clear, that is what these people are) who threaten violence against anything they don’t like, our political leaders give in to them and cancel events. All that does is embolden the anarchists.


43 posted on 08/21/2017 7:02:23 AM PDT by falcon99
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To: Ben Ficklin

It’s called Tourism.


44 posted on 08/21/2017 7:04:10 AM PDT by MGG
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To: Morgana

Think the problem is that the South WON the 1st Bull Run?


45 posted on 08/21/2017 7:05:21 AM PDT by MGG
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To: ichabod1
The rifled muskets and black powder revolvers of the infantry reenacters, the swords and horse pistols of the cavalry reenacters, and the smoothbore cannon of the artillery reenacters would decimate the Atnifa and BLM thugs in short order. Yankee and Rebel reenacters unite and take on the 2017 enemy!
46 posted on 08/21/2017 7:07:01 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: uncbob

Maybe sort of like a game, but done for the same reasons as the monuments, so people will never forget.


47 posted on 08/21/2017 7:11:46 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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To: COBOL2Java

LEftiss jes don like reinackment of Bull Run cuz they sent them federals steppin’ and fetchin’ like they heels wuz on fire and they asses wuz ketchin’!


48 posted on 08/21/2017 7:17:49 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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To: falcon99

Well, this is true, this was the most sickening part of the whole debacle of 0sama, was that we found out the government was rotten through and through. We shouldn’t expect any better from the current crop. Time for a new generation of leadership.


49 posted on 08/21/2017 7:42:59 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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To: Wallace T.

Fix Bayonets. Cold steel people don’t like.


50 posted on 08/21/2017 7:45:28 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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To: miss marmelstein

My cousin and his wife have been in many Civil War re-enactments over the years, in both Southern and Northern states, including here in Maine. They live in Massachusetts (and voted for Trump).

Like you said, these re-enactments pump huge amounts of tourism money into the local economy. Thousands of participants come into the area, and countless more local people who come from far and wide to watch and observe the re-enactors, and spend money on restaurants, motels, goods of all kinds, etc.

A big mistake cancelling this event at Bull Run / Manassas. One should never cave in to the left.

When I was in college in Los Angeles MANY years ago, I admired a ten volume set of books in the college library. The ten half-leather volumes were published in Atlanta in 1899 by the Confederate Publishing Company. The title: “Confederate Military History.”

Is the left going to start demanding that historical books, flags, and artifacts from the South be burned? What about all the original Confederate currency in the hands of collectors?

This insanity has to stop.


51 posted on 08/21/2017 7:48:39 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation ("You can't fix America without pissing off the people who broke it".....Bill Mitchell)
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To: Travis McGee

I guess Soros found some lefties willing to carry Confederate battle flags and Nazi flags for $25 per hour.


52 posted on 08/21/2017 7:52:03 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation ("You can't fix America without pissing off the people who broke it".....Bill Mitchell)
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To: Flick Lives

DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH


53 posted on 08/21/2017 7:55:42 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (eliminate perverse incentives)
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To: PeteB570
... don’t paint with too broad a brush.
Despite your personal experience, I don't think I did.
Regardless, when this unit's time came to stand up and be counted, they chose to do nothing.
54 posted on 08/21/2017 8:00:40 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: COBOL2Java

Glad I made to Appomattox Courthouse for the 150th Anniversary before all this madness really gained steam.


55 posted on 08/21/2017 8:02:07 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: oh8eleven

Have a nice day.


56 posted on 08/21/2017 9:05:51 AM PDT by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

Thanks for your post. I assumed local dollars would disappear with all these cancellations. It’s a sick world out there and getting sicker!!!


57 posted on 08/21/2017 9:08:38 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Ben Ficklin

No one is fighting the civil war. In case you haven’t noticed the left is also attacking statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and various Catholic saints.


59 posted on 08/21/2017 10:26:57 AM PDT by aomagrat (Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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To: COBOL2Java

The re-enactors should go ahead and do the re-enactment. They should keep their bayonets and sabers handy while doing it.


60 posted on 08/21/2017 10:32:20 AM PDT by Gritty (Dear Elitists: Trump is not our last chance. He's your last chance. - Kurt Schlicter)
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