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Mission resident Richard Kemp is used to people stopping and staring at his Madeline. The 53-year-old, in fact, relishes the attention he gets when people ask him about the companion that he has shared his life with for the past 11 years. Of course, this one doesn’t spend money. She just demands it. Lots of it. About $90,000. Madeline is no lady; she’s a tank. A 1944 olive-drab Sherman tank with twin diesel engines that rattle when she starts up. She doesn’t purr like her successors; instead, she lets out loud gurgles and burps — symbolic of an era when...

MARIETTA, Ga. - A group of Civil War re-enactors from Cobb County are headed to Washington next month to march in President Bush's inauguration parade. The group, called the 21st Ohio Re-enacting Unit, was invited by Vice President Dick Cheney after Cheney discovered his great-grandfather was a captain in the 21st Ohio Regiment. "We thought as a group that it would really be kind of a tribute, not only to the vice president and his great-grandfather but to the 21st Ohio, to be in the inaugural parade," said unit member Bradley Quinlin, a 50-year-old Suwanee resident who works as a...

While running for Senate against Bill Weld in 1996, a lot of the same issues that dog Kerry now were part of the political landscape. To placate some concerns, John Kerry allowed reporter Charles Sennott of the Boston Globe to watch five hours of his homemade video that was taken while he was on the Meekong Delta in Vietnam. The article, which is entited: "The making of the candidates: JOHN FORBES KERRY" was published on page A31 of the Globe on 10/6/1996. In it, Kerry admitted that he had used a video camera while in combat and had reenacted many...

The History Channel is going to air a new historical series entitled DECISIVE BATTLES including some classic wars between ancient Persian armies and Roman and Greek ones. The History Channel goes on location to the actual battlefields and integrates cutting-edge videogame technology to bring history and imagination together in the new series DECISIVE BATTLES. The half-hour series DECISIVE BATTLES premieres Friday, July 23 at 9-9:30pm ET/PT. The series is hosted by Matthew Settle (Band of Brothers) on location at the ancient battlefields and features expert commentary from the world©s foremost historians. DECISIVE BATTLES is unlike any series The History Channel...

MIDI - VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR -- scroll to the bottom (musical intro) For his resume a camera he acquired 'Cause some scenes of him in action he desired Swift boat buddies would found out that he's a liar Ooh-a-ooh Any time he heard a couple bullets flying On his camera they knew he'd soon be relying He got footage without really too much trying Ooh-a-ooh...the guy's a phony...ooh-a-ooh...he's freaking phony Jean Kerí is a video star...Jean Kerí is a video star This time he had gone too far...with his re-enactments Do you think that Rather Biased will...

new movie! in 4 (self-loading) parts UNFIT #9-JOHN KERRY: DEADLY OPPORTUNIST SELF-CONFESSED WAR CRIMlNAL MORPHS INTO SELF-PROMOTER WAR HERO includes KERRY'S cinéma-not-so-vérité BATTLEFIELD REENACTMENTS COMMENTARY BY NIXON, KERRY'S COMMANDERS, CREWMATES, ETC. JOHN KERRY IS UNFIT SERIES: taking the measure of a would-be commander-in-chief by Mia T, 7.29.04   (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) johnkerryisdangerousforamerica.blogspot.com missus clinton's REAL virtual office updatehttp://hillarytalks.blogspot.comhttp://virtualclintonlibrary.blogspot.comhttp://demmemogate.blogspot.comhttp://www.hillarytalks.ushttp://www.hillarytalks.orgfiendsofhillary.blogspot.comfiendsofhillary.usfiendsofhillary.orgfraudsofhillary.com  COPYRIGHT MIA T 2004   THE DEMOCRATS ARE GONNA GET US KILLED (kerry, clinton + sandy berger's pants) SERlES 2KERRY-DEMOCRAT CONTEMPT FOR NATIONAL SECURITY[annotated]THE DEMOCRATS-ARE-GONNA-GET-US-KILLED (kerry, clinton + sandy berger's pants) SERlES1dox in sox on lummox...

new movie! in 4 (self-loading) parts UNFIT #9-JOHN KERRY: DEADLY OPPORTUNIST SELF-CONFESSED WAR CRIMlNAL BECOMES SELF-PROMOTER WAR HERO includes KERRY'S cinéma-not-so-vérité BATTLEFIELD REENACTMENTS COMMENTARY BY NIXON, KERRY'S COMMANDERS, CREWMATES, ETC. JOHN KERRY IS UNFIT SERIES: taking the measure of a would-be commander-in-chief by Mia T, 7.29.04   (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) johnkerryisdangerousforamerica.blogspot.com missus clinton's REAL virtual office updatehttp://hillarytalks.blogspot.comhttp://virtualclintonlibrary.blogspot.comhttp://demmemogate.blogspot.comhttp://www.hillarytalks.ushttp://www.hillarytalks.orgfiendsofhillary.blogspot.comfiendsofhillary.usfiendsofhillary.orgfraudsofhillary.com  COPYRIGHT MIA T 2004 THE DEMOCRATS ARE GONNA GET US KILLED (kerry, clinton + sandy berger's pants) SERlES 2KERRY-DEMOCRAT CONTEMPT FOR NATIONAL SECURITY[annotated]THE DEMOCRATS-ARE-GONNA-GET-US-KILLED (kerry, clinton + sandy berger's pants) SERlES1dox in sox on lummox in box...

Saving Kerry's Privatesnew DNC Kerry Vietnam video is JUST AN ACT!!!

Entering controversy, director (and Stephen Speilburg protege) James Moll explains how the bullets in the water were not from the actual event.'It's just illustrative.' Moll mixes in the homemade Kerry film with stirring srings and a french horn soundtrack.Moll is said to manipulate the speed of the film.One moving scene shows Kerry in slow motion, in full gear, walking with his gun through the paddies.The Kerry films are at the center of a growing controversy in Boston..

After two centuries, it's still a sore point. Descendants of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr will reenact the nation's most famous duel when they meet today in Weehawken, N.J., on the 200th anniversary of that sordid event. Alexander Hamilton, a brilliant secretary of the treasury under George Washington but his career on the skids, took one bullet in the midsection from a dueling pistol fired by his bitter foe, Aaron Burr. The mortally wounded Hamilton fell to the ground and died the next day at age 50. Burr, 48, was unscathed. Burr, an equally brilliant politician and vice president under...

Old Fort MacArthur Days 18th Annual Artillery ShowSponsored byAssociated Foundations, Inc. Witness living history – see battle reenactments, cooking, and other demonstrations at three different arenas. Hear lectures and/or speeches on numerous historical topics and subjects. Visit the encampments representing the Roman Empire, the Viking era, the medieval times, the renaissance and other pre-colonial eras. Visit the American encampments representing the Revolutionary War, the Mexican War, the Civil War, the frontier West, the Spanish-American War, the Great War (World War I), World War II and the Vietnam era. Look at the only working 1942 Sperry searchlight in San Pedro. Take...

For all of her secret life as the wife of a soldier in Santa Anna's army, Patty Tristan has tried to adhere to one policy. No camping in the mud. There was no such luck this weekend, when Tristan and more than 200 other people gathered at San Jacinto Battleground State Historical Park to recreate the 1836 victory that gave Texas its independence from Mexico. The battle re-enactment was cancelled after a thunderstorm Saturday morning was capped by a lightning strike to the 570-foot tall monument in the middle of the park. Lightning, static electricity and 100 pounds of black...

LA PORTE, Texas — More than 10,000 Texans and others are expected to gather at San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site on April 24 to celebrate the brief but decisive battle that brought Texas its independence from Mexico. This year marks the 168th anniversary of Gen. Sam Houston’s Texan troops’ victory over the Mexican army under the command of Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna on April 21, 1836. The festival is free and lasts from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. At 3 p.m. April 24, more than 200 re-enactors will dramatize the victory of the roughly 800 Texans under...

(First post - please forgive any screw-ups)New York is now being tortured by Kerry and Edwards commercials. Kerry's, of course, shows him in Vietnam. A couple of days ago this article came out in "The Hill" about how he returned to the scene of one battle and recreated the episode with a movie camera. Could the footage in the commercial be from that? Inquiring minds want to know.

COLUMBIA, S.C. - For school kids on the annual field trip to the Battle of Aiken, it's a day out of class, with funnel cake and the sight of blasting cannons spewing plumes of blue smoke. "It's stuff you can't get in the classroom," said Pete Peters, spokesman for the re-enactment event.Since 1994, the Sons of Confederate Veterans, sponsors of the re-enactment, estimate they have entertained and educated 25,000 to 30,000 schoolchildren about Confederate history and the Civil War.On Friday, about 2,500 children attended the battle. The event continues Saturday and Sunday.Set in February 1865, the Battle of Aiken was...

WASHINGTON CROSSING, N.J. -- A Christmas Eve downpour after heavy rain and snow made the Delaware River too dangerous Thursday for the annual reenactment of George Washington's bold Revolutionary War crossing, grounding the actors for the second Christmas in a row. Last year, sleet, wind and strong currents prevented the crossing -- conditions similar to what Washington faced as he and his men crossed from Pennsylvania to New Jersey in the dark on Christmas Day 227 years ago. That 1776 maneuver led to key victories in Trenton and Princeton and reversed the Continental Army's fortunes. Even with the crossing reenactment...

UPPER MAKEFIELD, Pa. -- Longtime re-enactors of George Washington's Christmas crossing of the Delaware River are threatening to boycott this year's event, the latest salvo in their ongoing battle with a state park administrator. At least 15 boatmen and an undetermined number of militia re-enactors are refusing to participate in the Christmas Day event, which commemorates Washington's 1776 crossing that led to crucial victories in Trenton and Princeton and reversed the declining fortunes of the Continental Army.

<p>GETTYSBURG, Pa. -- There were no fire trucks on hand at the Battle of Gettysburg 140 years ago, so the grass fire that broke out yesterday afternoon during the 140th anniversary re-enactment was just going to have to wait.</p> <p>Organizers decided to let the fire, ignited by pyrotechnics in the lead-up to Pickett's Charge, burn for nearly an hour.</p>

Monmouth Battlefield State Park Mail address: 347 Freehold Road, Manalapan, New Jersey 07726 Phone: (732)-462-9616 Fax: (732)- 577-8816 Site of the longest battle of the American Revolution Where will you be on June 28th & 29th of 2003. We at Monmouth will be holding a little celebration commemorating the 225th anniversary of the Battle of Monmouth. We are hoping that about 10,000 of our closest friends will come out on that weekend to witness a spectacle of truly awesome proportions! Monmouth Battlefield State Park will host over 2,300 reenactors as they, the real stars of the day, will present a...

June 10, 2003 TO: News Media FROM: Gettysburg Anniversary Committee RE: High Priority - 140th Gettysburg Anniversary Battle Reenactment Rescheduled Due to the record-breaking wet weather in the Northeast from last fall through this spring and concern for the safety and health of the reenactors, spectators, farmers, and the community, and in consultation with Federal Commander, General Dr. David L. Valuska, and Confederate Commander, General James W. Maupin, the Gettysburg Anniversary Committee has made the decision to reschedule the 140th Gettysburg Anniversary Battle Reenactment, originally scheduled for July 4th, 5th, and 6th, 2003. This decision was reached after extensive consultation...