Throughout the nearby area, there are a number of reenactment camps for various US army regiments...we've had a great time exploring three of them, Camp Arizona, Camp Bloody Gulch, and Camp Geronimo (paratrooper camp). We Americans were very excited to see camps full of US uniforms; it's funny how you get to missing your own country and language when you're gone long enough!
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| Yes, the Grant girls are too tall... or the French are a little too short, either one! |
Interestingly and somewhat unfortunately for us, the majority of "our" soldiers were actually French men and women. The longer we thought about it, however, the more honored we felt...these people chose to do reenactments as our soldiers, not their own.
And they've studied enough about our soldiers and what happened in WWII to lead demonstrations and explain about soldier life (again mostly in French, so we weren't able to benefit too much from the lectures. Thankfully, Daddy is a military encyclopedia, and we got everything from him!).
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| This MP was a British gentleman who fooled us all into thinking he was an American with his flawless disguised accent. Imagine our suprise when he began speaking like a proper Brit! The joke is on us! |
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| Is anyone else having a Captain America moment, or is it just us? |
That's really neat! I wonder if there are any for world one.........
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