visiting historic battlefields

[Bugout]

Little Big Horn is kind of an interesting place to go. When your there it's pretty obvious why Custer's force was slaughtered.

Wounded Knee Where Big Foot and Tribe was massacred by the American Army. You wouldn't know it when your there that so many innocents were killed in the name of Manifest Destiny.

I grew up just a short distance away from the site of the Bear River Massacre in southeastern Idaho, where a group of California volunteers on their way to the Eastern U.S. to fight in the Civil War stopped to "fight" a Shoshone-Bannock tribe because of reports that there had been a theft of some livestock. Anyways up until the early 1980s it was listed in Idaho history books as the Battle of Bear River, when the name was officially changed to The Bear River Massacre and the site was placed on the Historic Landmark Register. It was not a significant event in any historical sense, but growing up by it has left me with a realization that a great many terrible things have occurred in the history of the U.S. on its way to "greatness".

P.S. I'm not trying to make a political statement just attempting to give a sense of my reaction to having visited that particular battlefield.

[matteus the inbred]

matteus the inbred did you get a chance to get a pic of yourself or the battle groups while doing the hastings reinactment? that would be cool to see the battle groups doing their thing.

that is okay if you only see local battlefields, they are interesting too. around me they are all american civil war sites. the only really old one is actually interesting is called blood mountain in north georgia. a battle occured there before white men ever landed in america and the indians living there knew nothing about it either. all they know is a ton of arrowpoints are everywhere. so, sometime in pre-history there was a big battle there between indian tribes.

Nah, I was too busy trying not to get trodden on by horses!
I was at the Last Big One, as it's known, in 2000...this year will be The Next Big One, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...gs_reenactment

Britain's covered in funny little battles, I find out about new ones all the time, my folks live on the Welsh borders and there's plenty down there. Went to the Mortimer's Cross (1460) re-enactment last year, but only as a spectator (I quit ages ago after some fool poked a sword into my eye socket...)

[highlanddave]

matteus the inbred thanks for the link. if i lived in britain i definitely would attend next months reinactment at hastings. to everyone in britain this is a shout out:

"hey, in october see the reinactment at hastings!"