Not all re-enactors are recreating the battles and fighting times. But, having said that, you cannot get away from the basic element that defines us as yet another animal in the kingdom. Humans like to fight. The competitive element of the blood begins to boil and then we have to butt heads and thereby choose a leader. It is there in all elements of our lives whether it is on the battlefields of France or in our own coporate offices.

We will know we dragged ourselves out of that animal need when the bombs cease to fall, the guns are all rusty, and people learn to live in peace under their umbrellas. Why the umbrellas? Because the mess made by flying pigs is far worse than that made by birds.