[Milsurplus] Toys on Parade

[W2HX]

I attend milradio/milvehicle shows a few times a year. At the next show I plan to bring my 72 land rover lightweight. But I am very reluctant to wear anything that might suggest I ever served anywhere because I didn't. I am not a re-enactor and I am not a vet. I have thought about getting a uniform but I wouldn't want to be thought of as a "poser" which is how I would feel.

I would rather reserve the honor of wearing a uniform to those who actually served.


73 Eugene W2HX

-----Original Message-----
From: J. Forster [jfor at quikus.com]
Received: Saturday, 17 Aug 2013, 5:48pm
To: COURYHOUSE at aol.com [COURYHOUSE at aol.com]
CC: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net [milsurplus at mailman.qth.net]
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Toys on Parade

Years ago, many years ago, I was involved in a re-enactor group that also
drew crowds of people clothed inappropriately for the Middle Ages. The
same kind of issues were raised at the time.

Basically, we selected a few 'ambassadors' to chat with the people in
modern clothes, and most everybody else pretty much ignored them.

It's not so easy to exclude onlookers from events in outdoor sites. We
also did indoor events that were everybody in appropriate dress.

-John

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> and  you  do not  wear  your  pirate  clothes?  SHAME ON YOU!  <Grin!>
>
>
> In a message dated 8/17/2013 2:32:42 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
> bruce-macmillan3 at sky.com writes:
>
> It  looked like an event to give exposure (and some fun) to the public.
> It's  quite impracticable to expect the public to come dressed in BD.
> It's like  saying if you want to ride the "Pirates of the Caribbean" at
> Disneyland  you have to be dressed as a pirate.
>
> These guys do events where they are  in full dress. Google " Tanks in
> Town " in Belgium or the War & Peace  show.
>
> On the topic of dress up I've heard remarks from military &  ex-military
> people who resent civvies "playing soldier". One chap said he  would
> prefer to see a person in civilian cloths rather than an aged,
> overweight, balding person in WW2 BD.
>
> How many of us wear some  matching theme clothes when attending a mil
> radio  function?
>
> Bruce    m0soe
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