I think most peoples reasons are a variation on the themes described so far, I was always interested in military stuff, courtesy of my father, but then I got into living history which added a whole new dimention to things for me. It somehow makes a lot of difference, I mean now if I look at a photograph of a German soldier in the Ardennes, I have no idea what he was going through, but I know where his feet hurt, I know what the dull ache in his shoulders from carrying a pack feels like, I know why he is holding his helmet up and why he doesn't have the chin strap on. It sort of changes things...

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There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.