Dear Alex, thanks for your description. I would like to make a small note as to why we in the Czech Republic are engaged in reenacting ACW - even though it is a complex topic. This is partly due to the "romance" of the time (although many people probably do not understand what may be romantic in a war), partly because we lived here for a long time at a time when communist criminals banned everything that was even the slightest "wiped" on anything to do with the United States. Another reason in the series is the fact that in the war between states, or as we say in the "war of the North against the South", many soldiers from European countries who came to the United States as immigrants fought. We have found several Czechs who in this they fought the war - both for the Union and for the Confederacy, so we consider it a bit like our history, and history needs to be valued and learned from it so that we don't have to repeat it ...
I was honored to meet you and I hope to meet again next year in Lipina!
Thank you for your humble and sensitive description. We all are looking for your next visite! Alex, you, not only as a descendant of four geat grandfathers fighting in CW, are very welcome on the board of Titanic!
That's great to hear Jiri! I was worried as to how you would take my no-doubt not perfect description of what I saw. I would love to get back on board the Titanic! What a great place!
Dear Alex, thanks for your description. I would like to make a small note as to why we in the Czech Republic are engaged in reenacting ACW - even though it is a complex topic. This is partly due to the "romance" of the time (although many people probably do not understand what may be romantic in a war), partly because we lived here for a long time at a time when communist criminals banned everything that was even the slightest "wiped" on anything to do with the United States. Another reason in the series is the fact that in the war between states, or as we say in the "war of the North against the South", many soldiers from European countries who came to the United States as immigrants fought. We have found several Czechs who in this they fought the war - both for the Union and for the Confederacy, so we consider it a bit like our history, and history needs to be valued and learned from it so that we don't have to repeat it ...
I was honored to meet you and I hope to meet again next year in Lipina!
Zdeněk Palárec as Colonel Sigismund von Katz,
1st Texas Infantry Regiment
Thank you for the additional information Jiri. All very interesting. I love hearing the greater context of things.
I have plenty of my own opinions about the American Civil War but I am wisely keeping them to myself for the time being!
Thank you for your humble and sensitive description. We all are looking for your next visite! Alex, you, not only as a descendant of four geat grandfathers fighting in CW, are very welcome on the board of Titanic!
That's great to hear Jiri! I was worried as to how you would take my no-doubt not perfect description of what I saw. I would love to get back on board the Titanic! What a great place!
Alex, excellent tale!!
Thanks Jim! Nice to hear that from my old boss!