Hey everyone out there! I want to share with you a few videos I made. But, first of all, I shall introduce my passion for this period in history, and how I came to love it.
I believe my passion started sometime when I was a young child, for I always enjoyed watching the cartoon TV series Liberty's kids. However, my passion for this period in history was just developing in my childhood, and had not yet grown to the point where I noticed it. That day would come when I was sitting in 8th grade History class, bored with the subject of history and wishing that the class would end soon. The subject was the American Revolutionary War, my textbook was open, and I turned away from it one moment to look out the window. When I looked back at my textbook, I felt this queer feeling, then I started reading my textbook, and I mean actually reading it! For some odd reason, I began to get pulled into the story of the American Revolutionary War. I still cannot figure out to this day how my thoughts changed so rapidly! After that, I was never the same again. I started paying attention more in History class, and actually enjoed memorizing the Declaration of Independence and doing my homework. When I was required to write a song about a war in America's history in English class, I wrote about the American Revolutionary War! When I checked out fiction books in the library, I started checking out AWR fiction books. However, I still was straddling the fence between making it a hobby or making it my passion. This changed when my Mom remarried about two years ago, and we relocated to South Carolina when my step-Dad got a job at the hospital in Greenwood, SC. Not very long after we moved here, I went to star-fort in Ninety-six, SC where there was an American siege in the AWR. Then in early December, my step-Dad went to a bio-med meeting in NC, while my mom and I made a trip to Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. That was the clinching point for me, I do not know whether it was putting on an Continental officer's uniform, or walking around Colonial Williamsburg that did it, but I left with a very real sense that I was missing something. When I got back home, I ran out of fiction books to read, so my mom told me to get some books on the AWR. I did as she suggested, and went to the library and checked out some slim biographies on the people of the AWR. When I did this, there was no turning back. I was fired up when I read their stories, and wanted to learn more about them and the war that made America. To this very day, all the books I read are non-fiction. Since that moment, I have gone to Cowpens National Battlefield, SC, Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, and Mount Vernon-George Washington's home. I also may be going to Camden, SC in two months for Revolutionary War field days. That is my story, and there is more chapters that are being written down every day.
Now to get on with the trailers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE0KdFqpd-w , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-EeyBj6b3o, and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE0KdFqpd-w.
