These same individuals who frequent this re-enactors’ forum give the impression that this forum is ligit.But they give themselves away as not being re-enactors by the historically inaccurate information the people in this forum make public in online posts.When caught in their inaccuracies these same people become defensive, insulting, derogatory, as well as creating unecessary drama on this forum.

The moderators of this civil war re-enactors’ forum are just as bad.Many ligitimate re-enactors such as myself spend hours and hours researching their historical portrayal using credible, historically accurate, information taken from reliable source such as I have done for my portrayal of the spy that I have decided to portray at re-enactments. It is disgusting to be a serious re-enactor and go onto these bogus forums that pretend to be a forum for real, serious re-enactors like myself.

As a re-enactor the thing that irritates me more than anything else is when someone pretends to be a re-enactor, gets caught in their obvious lies about their own skewed version of historical events that took place and tries to insist that their skewed version is true and or tries to sweep actual historical events under the carpet. Especially when these people have never done the research on the person or historical event that they are talking about.

Thumbs down on Civil War Re-enactor’s forum, it obviously isn’t a real re-enactors forum but a forum for cyber bots who have no life and no respect for real re-enactors and history.

I remember during events close to parking lots when the artillery pieces went off about 5 car alarms went off as well. I can’t bash it, though, they were good times and I did learn a lot from those guys.

Too funny. Good points, both of you.

Jared,

One night in February of March of 1979, the post office in my home town of Wyomissing, PA blew up. There was a gas leak in the building, and one of the sorting machines set off a spark. That spark triggered a gas explosion that caused the post office to blow sky high. Fortunately, there were no people in the building when it happened, so nobody was injured. My parents’ house was about 2.5 miles from the post office, but I heard the explosion and felt the concussion from it. My father was two blocks away, bowling, and he said the whole building rocked when it happened.

What I remember best was seeing photographs of jets of flame coming up from the sidewalk in front of what was left of the post office.

It took them two years to build a new post office.

Eric