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Was talking with a buddy of mine that is a Reenactor. He was in a few movies, including Gettysburg. He plays a Union soldier in the Second KY.

Well, I thought you would find this entertaining.

I was being recruited to join the cult of reenacting and was invited for Artillery Training.

So we travelled to a State Park that borders one of the larger US Rivers.

And we worked on Civil War era canons and a WWI 150mm Howitzer. It was quite interesting all the prep and work to fire off these canons.

When it got dark we started night firing training and thought it would be interesting to shell the neighboring state across the river. And we are pounding the farm across the river with anything we can get our hands on, when all of a sudden a claxon went off and all the search lights on a barge going down the river turned on and started sweeping the river bank, and someone yelled, “we shot off their radar”

So, we through blankets over the canon. And when the Rangers and Local Police arrived we lied our butts off.

I’ve always wondered what the guys on the barge thought.