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February 23, 2005
Four Score and Seven Years Ago...
When I was a junior in high school, I took a Civil War history class. Now, I was never a history buff and I was terrible at memorizing historical names and dates, but part of the allure of taking this class was the fact that every year, the class would go on a week-long trip to visit the Civil War battlegrounds--Antietam, Gettysburg, etc.
Each class before us was able to do battle re-enactments, but we were unable to bring any kind of toy guns, not even brightly colored squirt guns. So, in order to play-fight, we had to ambush our enemies and call out people's names in order to "shoot" them in order to prevent them from taking possession of the forts.
Well, it turned out that we were all having a great time and strategies included resorting to using other people's jackets to disguise ourselves because if the wrong name was called out, it didn't count as a death. During one battle, one of my classmates and "enemy" hid himself high in a tree and was picking off my teammates one after another. I held off trying to overtake their fort since I would have had to expose myself in the open. No one could figure out where he was and we were about to lose the battle when I suddenly spotted him in the tree and yelled, "ADAM! YOU'RE DEAD!!" He yelled, "SH--!" And we overtook the fort. And even though it was just a re-enactment, it was fun to be the "hero".
It was a great time - driving from place to place, seeing the battlegrounds in person, staying in cheap (and I mean cheap) motels, taking a side trip to Washington D.C., and just spending a week of all-out fun. Oh yeah, we also learned a lot too!
Posted by Amy at February 23, 2005 09:10 AM
Comments
YUP!!!
Posted by: Amy at February 24, 2005 09:04 AM
Sounds like you guys had WAY too much fun!!!
Posted by: Jessica at February 23, 2005 11:38 PM
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