Thank you for bringing attention to the Moorpark Rotary Club Civil War Reenactment last weekend.

Thanks to you bringing this event to our attention we supported a worldwide organization called Rotary International.

Rotary gives 100 percent of every dollar earned to those less fortunate worldwide. No other charitable organization comes close.

For years the Moorpark Rotary Club has supported local charities and organizations like the Boys & Girls Club, the police department, homeless shelters, etc. and, together with support of Rotary clubs around the world, has taken on the task of eradicating polio worldwide.

I agree war is a terrible thing, and we can wish forever that it will never happen again. To do so is both unrealistic and foolish, for as long as there are those who wish to conquer and those willing to fight for God-given freedom there will always be war.

You state the event is a “monstrosity and a distasteful act of disrespect to all veterans alive or dead.”

The fact is that Civil War reenactments were created by veterans and began before the Civil War ended in 1865, a fact I learned as a child not from a book but from a Civil War reenactment.

You see, as a child my parents felt that history, good or bad, was important.

Today, reenactments of the American Civil War are conducted worldwide, including in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy.

Civil War reenactments were created by Civil War veterans as a way to remember their fellow soldiers and to teach others about the horrors of war and the reasons the war was fought, most likely in an attempt to educate and not “entertain” others of the horrors of war.

So you say boycott Civil War reenactments. What next? Burn all copies of “Gone with the Wind” as well?

So I say attend a Civil War reenactment. You might just learn something about American history. Skip Faria Simi Valley