Quick post based on passing thought.
How many who study the Civil War would like the chance to experience it? Be that for a day, a week, a month… or whatever… how many actually “try” to experience it through living history, reenactments, etc.
Now, how many would like to give WW1 a try?
As for me… yes, I’d still give time travel to the CW a whirl, but as much as it interests me (the AEF in France) time travel to the First World War has no appeal. Then too, trench warfare in the CW never interested me as a focus of study. Dismal stuff.
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Matt McKeon
August 15, 2010
I wouldn’t want to live anytime before flush toilets. Or air conditioning. Or women’s suffrage. Or modern medical care. I wouldn’t like to be a tourist in someone’s real war. But a vacation to the 19th century would be OK, like a camping trip.
Robert Moore
August 16, 2010
Most of my childhood dreams of being on a CW battleline were dispelled years ago, but “riding a raid” still holds a little something. Still, I think some sort of cultural immersion holds my greater interest these days. We can speculate only so much.
Craig Swain
August 16, 2010
Well, I for one would probably opt for the WWI experience. CW soldiering leaned a bit harder on the individual, to some degrees. I’ll take SPAM and crackers over salt pork and hardtack. Or steel helmet over cloth kepi. Or bolt action repeater over muzzle-loader.
Better still, might be fun to fly a Sopwith or SPAD. You know, as Snoopy’s wingman! 🙂
Robert Moore
August 19, 2010
Good points all the way around …the food and the flyboy experience are much more appealing to some of the other options from the CW.
Mike Simons
August 24, 2010
If I could go back in a time machine and observe what happened for myself. Otherwise I generally enjoy modern stuff too much.