I cannot understand the fixation some people have with the need to relive something as catastrophic, painful, agonizing and heartbreaking as war.

Is it not enough the suffering and loss that were experienced during the actual event, that some feel the need to remind everyone of it again?

Do they not think of the descendants of those lost and how they must feel when a group of boys want to play with the memories of their lost ones?

This month, in Moorpark, they reenacted bits of the Civil War. Why?

Where is the entertainment in reenacting mass murder on a phenomenal scale? Or reminding people who actually sit and think during this event of the ones who lost their homes, land, belongings and families at the hands of their very neighbors.

Has anybody involved in this bizarre event thought about the fact that during this war brothers shot at brothers and fathers at sons?

Out of curiosity, I attended this event a couple of years ago and was astonished, if not appalled, when the crowd cheered as the cannons shot off the smoke and the group of soldiers jumped and fell, as if being blown to smithereens.

Or when they applauded as another group was surprised from behind and shot in the backs, falling to the ground in an act of mass death. This is entertainment?

Unlike an action film in the theater, this event was a sorrowing fact, making it a little odd to want to witness it live again.

I wonder, who will they get to play the insurgents when one day another group of men in some club decide they want to entertain the people with a reenactment of "Operation al-Fajr, Surge Into Fallujah." Imagine the revenue they can generate with this one.

Think about it: In any war, it is a tragedy at its best. Maybe a sad necessity at times, but I cannot think of any reason to purposely relive it, especially for profit and entertainment. It's morbid. It's sick.

Now there will be letters written doubting my patriotism and my lack of understanding for the need to show a historical event of war and death, and to that I say, like me, everyone has a right to their opinion. Peter Carrube Simi Valley