Correspondence
Jul 25, 2008 13:55:26 GMT -5
Post by wildhorsefantatic on Jul 25, 2008 13:55:26 GMT -5
I recently came across a good way to add more fun to an old facet of firper reenacting, mail call. The person suggested this:
Say that there are two units, the 16. Pionier Battalion and the 15. Panzer Division. Their guys have been talking to each other, trading ideas and such. The Pioniers find out that the Panzers also have a correspondence aspect to their events. Why not add variety?
Several memebers of the units exchange mailing addresses and event schedules. Instead of writing to themselves, they'll write to the person who gave them their address. Find out more about their character. Become one of their family back home. Write about how life is back in Frankfurt, how the war hard it is to get a hold of certain things. Talk about Uncle Johann's TB. Talk about how brother Fritz is doing on the Ostfront.
As always, Mike gets a hold of period stamps and such (for German units, der Erste Zug has a good article on this). He puts the period letter inside a modern envelope. Upon recieving the envelope, Gary will bring it to his next event, open the envelope and leave it in the car, and give the unread letter to whoever dishes out the mail for the event. When mail call sounds, Gary will read the letter, mayhaps share it with his Kameraden, and then he will put the letter in his gas mask cannister for safe keeping. He'll then write a reply to Mike, which will be an actual reply to the information in the first letter and give more ideas for Mike to write about. Gary keeps it in his cannister until het gets home. He then sticks his reply in a modern day envelope and sends it to Mike, along with a letter for Mike's Soldat firper. Mike will write the "home front" letter for Gary at home and write his letter from the front back to Mutti (Gary) at his next event (with the same guidelines that Gary had to follow!)
We have the people to do this here in the forum. Why not give it a shot? Sound off questions and comments!
Say that there are two units, the 16. Pionier Battalion and the 15. Panzer Division. Their guys have been talking to each other, trading ideas and such. The Pioniers find out that the Panzers also have a correspondence aspect to their events. Why not add variety?
Several memebers of the units exchange mailing addresses and event schedules. Instead of writing to themselves, they'll write to the person who gave them their address. Find out more about their character. Become one of their family back home. Write about how life is back in Frankfurt, how the war hard it is to get a hold of certain things. Talk about Uncle Johann's TB. Talk about how brother Fritz is doing on the Ostfront.
As always, Mike gets a hold of period stamps and such (for German units, der Erste Zug has a good article on this). He puts the period letter inside a modern envelope. Upon recieving the envelope, Gary will bring it to his next event, open the envelope and leave it in the car, and give the unread letter to whoever dishes out the mail for the event. When mail call sounds, Gary will read the letter, mayhaps share it with his Kameraden, and then he will put the letter in his gas mask cannister for safe keeping. He'll then write a reply to Mike, which will be an actual reply to the information in the first letter and give more ideas for Mike to write about. Gary keeps it in his cannister until het gets home. He then sticks his reply in a modern day envelope and sends it to Mike, along with a letter for Mike's Soldat firper. Mike will write the "home front" letter for Gary at home and write his letter from the front back to Mutti (Gary) at his next event (with the same guidelines that Gary had to follow!)
We have the people to do this here in the forum. Why not give it a shot? Sound off questions and comments!