Is the WWII Weekend at the Reading Airport. It started today with a Mid-Day Café concert in downtown Reading, complete with a caravan of vintage vehicles and troops driving through as if to liberate the city. Yeah, wish it were that easy.
Throughout the weekend there will be re-enactors, period entertainment, planes and equipment to tour, flying demonstrations and a variety of plane rides happening out on the airport grounds. Food and souvenirs too. For a change, the weather is cooperating nicely so that won’t deter people from attending as it has in years past. All in all, it should turn out to be a decent event.
The whole concept has me wondering though. Do you think, in fifty or sixty years airfields will be holding Gulf War festivals? Or do you think it’s something that will be forgotten as so many of our returning veterans have been?
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