Episode Details

Join Greg Enslen and Doug Slagel on the newest episode of New Makers to hear all about war reenactments. Doug Slagel tells us about his personal experiences doing these reenactments, with reenacting the battle of antietam being one of his favorites. He mentions that the civil war reenactments used to be very popular around the 80s and until the early 2000s when WOrld War 2 reenacting started to get popular instead. Doug’s wife was the one to get him interested in war reenacting, and she wholeheartedly supports his hobby. He is currently the president of the Stillwater Civil War round table in Troy, and the Vice Commander of the Sons of Union Vets in the Dayton area. He also happens to own a Jeep from World War 2 as well. 

Doug happens to have a lot of reenactment events coming up this year. He will be down in Menassas, Virginia for a reenactment on May 16th. There will be a group of reenactors at the Tipp City Senior Center on May 20th where they will be doing demonstrations with their weapons. The governor has even been invited to this event. The July 4th weekend there will be a World War 2 reenactment up in Sidney at Tawawa Park, and they are currently looking for more people to participate in this event. Doug is also putting together a Civil War reenactment in Sidney at Tawawa park on September 18th of this year. These are all great opportunities to get involved if reenacting sounds fun to you. You can also get involved by visiting usv.com to find events that are going on or people to chat with.

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