War games make sense, conducted to reenact the war scenarios to provide the troops with an opportunity to assess their abilities and skills. These war games help soldiers in the future in case a combat situation arises. But there is a popular phenomenon that most of us are not familiar with, it is called the war reenactment. But this reenactment is way different then military’s war games. These reenactments feature ordinary people (in most cases) experiencing a certain war in order to either have a perspective or simply for fun. A couple of indie filmmakers Meghan O’Hara and Mike Attie have produced a documentary ‘In Country’ about a war reenactment group that is very different from any other such groups in the US. The Group conducts the reenactment of the Vietnam War with elaborate scenarios and war machinery. People carry real guns with blanks, dressed according to the stage of the war they are portraying, and performing all the tasks that a soldier performed during Vietnam campaign, The Daily Beast reports. The documentary shows the crew following and somewhat actively immersing into the reenactment with all the other participants. When researching for their documentary, the filmmakers were especially intrigued by the seriousness and efforts put in by this group into their reenactment. With a bunch of YouTube videos, couple with real life interviews with Vietnam veterans this group prides in keeping the modern American war history alive. For Mike and Meghan, working alongside this reenactment group was a whole new
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