Then the opening ceremonies began with massed bands
The parade of the clans
And, of course, Nessie was there....
And what do you get when you cross the Highland Games with Civil War Reenacting?The 79th New York!
Okay, you know me.... how much more perfect could the day have been than mixing bagpipes and the Civil War? Even if they were Yankees. We may be joining the Northern forces next year anyway as our unit has so many members deployed or in school on their GI Bill after multiple deployments that we are no longer eligible to participate as a unit. :( Two of our group are Yankees by birth so they are drawn to the Union naturally. (I love them anyway) And one of them, whose hubby is in the Navy. wants to join a Yankee Marine unit!!!! So all my beloved family take warning. I may be becoming a Yankee girl... I know, it's so tragic. But that is what that ugly war brought to so many families. It only seems poetic that we should know this pain as reenactors, too!
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