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In a message dated 10/8/2007 5:03:38 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
tomt at hellothomas.org writes:

As  loathe as I am to mention reenacting here since it is general regarded
with  sneers and jeers, I will say that I once saw an artillery piece
fired,  swabbed, loaded (1 lb of powder / no shell) and then when the
rammer was  inserted, the gun went off, taking the rammer =with two arms
attached to  it= down range. The rammer, a boy of 16 year old and son of
the battery  commander, lived, although horrible handicapped and disfigured
from the  flash.


 
I don't recollect seeing reenacting being sneered and jeered at on this  
site, but on the subject of reenacting artillery accidents, about 15 years ago I  
attended an event where two or three cannons were being fired (with  blanks).  
I noted that one of the reenactors (he was ramming home the  charges) had an 
artificial arm.  I don't know if he had lost his own arm in  a cannon 
accident, but it seemed likely.  

Bruce  Trinque
Amston, CT




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