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USS Stewart with The Gulf Coast WW2 Living History Crew

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Camp Mabry Muster Day 2014 Battle

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Here’s the staged battle of Salerno, Italy from Camp Mabry Muster Day 2014. After being at this event, I watched a documentary with interviews of concentration camp survivors. Simon Wiesenthal, famous Nazi hunter and camp survivor, said as he was liberated he could barely even walk, but he just wanted to look at the American flag. He felt, upon seeing our flag, that every star stood for something – justice, friendship, culture, etc. – and each stripe stood for the road to freedom. Such a beautiful thought.

Read about Simon Wiesenthal.

Camp Mabry Muster Day 2014 Re-enactors’ Camps

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I’ve been turning this Winston Churchill quote over and over; “Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.” Just throwing that out there.

So what’s happening here is that I got the opportunity this past April to go along with some fine fellers on a WWII re-enactment event at Camp Mabry Muster Day 2014. We camped onsite. One of the guys made really tasty pea and potato soup. And they taught me card games. Then, in turn, I taught the fellers what lady spooning is. Good times for all.