The Civil War reenactor community gets more ludicrous by the day.
This latest compilation of pictures of these stern-faced, white-haired, pot-bellied pretend soldiers at today’s 150th commemoration of the firing on Fort Sumter shows the trend. They’re less reminiscent of real Civil War soldiers than they are poster boys for the 21st century’s geriatric obesity epidemic.
UPDATE: A more important (in the long run) anniversary of the day was Yuri Gagarin’s Vostok 1 flight into orbit and return, fifty years ago, the first time anyone had done that.
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