Clayton & Pat and Pacific beach reenactment

On Thursday Clayton & Pat arrived for three nights.  After they set up and we visited we played poker until 10 pm......which we did all three nights.  Friday we took them to Fredericksburg to eat at a German restaurant, it was OK but we have never found a German restaurant that comes close to Leighthousers was in Saline.  We then went to Luckenbach fora beer and let them check it out before riding around the hill country and returning to the campground. Saturday was a day of rest and doing odds and ends here at the campground before they left Sunday morning.
Sunday the rally group went to Alamo Springs Cafe for a burger but Judy and I skipped that.  We met the group in Fredericksburg at the Pacific War Museum for a WWII reenactment of the Marines beach landing on Tarawa.  The first hour and a quarter was about history and Japaneses background then descriptions and demonstrations of many of the weapons used by the Marines and Japanese.

Father & son reenacting Japaneses soldiers.

Rifle demo.

Carbine demo.

Thompson sub machine gun demo.

BAR, British Automatic Rifle, demo.  This old guy really looked, sounded and acted the part of an old no nonsense soldier.

Machine gun team.

Shotgun for close in combat.

50 caliber machine gun

Flame thrower.

Following all the history then weapon descriptions and demos, which were very interesting, came the battle reenactment which lasted less than ten minutes with LOTS and LOTS of intense shooting, explosions and activity.  We were provided ear plugs.

Here's a view from the stands after the reenactment.

Yup, medics were there just in case.  Judy and I along with the rest of the rally folks there really enjoyed the entire program.  Next year the museum is spending $8M to remove the beachhead and replace it with the mountains of Okinawa for a new reenactment.