re: Anyone here ever been involved in Vietnam war reanactments?

I man the POW camp aspects of the re-enactments.

It's always funny seeing fat dudes and nerds dress up for this.

Kinda takes the realism out of it.

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Nazis fleeing to Argentina got all the press, but a surprising amount fled to Vietnam and just melted into the jungle. Some say you can still hear them to this day...

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Most of the French Foreign Legion during the Indochina war were ex German soldiers.

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Vietnam war reanactment

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I’m going to dress up like this.

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I'm sure these events are filled with normal, well-adjusted individuals

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just looking at those pics makes me throw up in my mouth a little, what a bunch of twisted, dysfunctional, degenerate looking mofos

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It’s that piss strapped to his helmet? And a ss neck tattoo?

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That's a definitely an SS neck tattoo.

Yikes.

The re-enactment thing at commerative events made a lot of sense for Revolutionary War era history. We don't have pictures or film, and the military procedures were so different. Playing Viet Nam seems like it would attract weirdos as the pictures appear to confirm.

Do they do the home coming where the hippies attack the returning Vet? Do they show the job interviews where they tell the Vet they don't hire drug addicts or murders?
Do they show people marching with north Viet Nam's flag while our boys are fighting in the jungle? Do the show them chanting Ho Ho Ho Che Men?
If not they are missing out on a lot of the war.

Its for the guys who did 4 years in the corps as a warehouse worker stateside but love to tell everyone they were in the shite during the war. And wont wear a shirt or a hat unless it has the eagle, globe and anchor on it.