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I saw a reenactment at Gettysburg in the 1990’s. Where I live we have Revolutionary War Reenactments. It’s one of the things that keep or get kids interested in history, in my opinion. Many of the people do know more about the events they’re reenacting then the so-called Academics. I’ve seen many kids also get interested in the military by attending reenactments, which may be why a lefty college Professor may have a problem with them. To me, a reenactment is a play put on for free by people that devote their time to preserving history. But it also shows that the soldiers were real people, and we can’t have that./s

My wife and her sister were at the one on the 4th at Gettysburg.
We pretty regularly tour the Battle field (a couple of times year).
We saw one other reenactment several years ago that was relatively good.

My wife and her sister said the one a few days ago was very poorly done. They said the crowds where terrible and the sound system was very inefficiently sited around the displays and tents. Parking and visitor/crowd management were terrible they said.

They were glad they went, but agreed with me they should have gone there on a non holiday day. They did say the battlefield is benefiting from the restore they have been working on. The trees, grass, and woodland debris has been restored to more like it was back in the days of the battle.

My wife said it gave whole new views from some of the sites than we had when we first viewed them over the previous we were there. PCN did a great job over the 5 or so days they covered it on TV. They both said they got almost more from that, then being there in the heat with the crowds and traffic.

I have to tell you I still get a tear or two very time when there.