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SUMMARY:Swordfest 2024
DESCRIPTION:En garde! Swordfest is coming! And there’s little time left to draw your cold blade. It will be here on Saturday\, Feb. 10! \nIf you don’t know what SwordFest is\, you need to look into hearing aids – how could you have missed the schwinging\, swooshing and clanging? It’s the biggest\, loudest Saturday program at the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum each year. So be warned: An army of strangely dressed\, sword-swinging characters are on the march\, and will soon descend on the city with serious fun on their minds. \nJoe Long\, curator of education at the museum\, says final preparations are nearly complete\, and most of the “big draws” are returning. Here’s the schedule as it now stands: \n9:55 a.m. – The action opens with the formation of a Sword Arch by members of the Columbia High Junior ROTC. \n10:00 – Welcome and introduction. \n10:15 – McAuley Broadsword Youth Demonstration Team: South Carolina’s own historic style\, as practiced by 19th century militia. \n10:30 – Carolina Historical Fencing: CHF recreates the fighting techniques of past centuries with a variety of blades! \n11:00 – Iaido\, the Art of Sword-Drawing. Dan Bernardo of WellWithin Martial Arts will demonstrate a traditional Japanese sword art with a live cutting demonstration with a samurai sword. \n11:30 – Columbia Fencing Club: the fast-moving modern sport of fencing\, as seen in Olympic competitions\, also thrives locally! See how the champions train! \n12:15 p.m. – Swords of the Jedi. The Aiken Saber Club will put on a display of a recreational form of swordplay\, inspired by the Star Wars universe. This includes demonstrations of choreographed lightsaber dueling. \n1:00 – Cavalry Saber Historian Neil Rose will demonstrate how Wade Hampton’s cavalry employed the saber at Gettysburg. \n1:30 – Pirates! Theatrical dueling in the classic style\, by members of the Charles Towne Few! \n2:00 – Palmetto Knights Steel Combat Team: armored knights and their fighting techniques. \nAll sorts of associated items will be on display. Oh\, and don’t forget – the museum itself has a huge array of swords\, from those used in combat in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars\, to a 400-year-old samurai sword captured by an American soldier at Iwo Jima! During this event\, you can check out the museum for free. \nCome on and have some real\, educational fun! \n  \n 
URL:https://whosonthemove.com/event/swordfest-2024/
LOCATION:SC Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum\, 301 Gervais Street\, Gervais\, SC\, 29201
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SUMMARY:Lecture on the Battle of Firebase Ripcord
DESCRIPTION:As visitors approach the entrance of the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum\, the first thing they see is a huge diorama of Fire Support Base Ripcord\, depicting in meticulous detail the site of the very last major battle the U.S. Army experienced during the Vietnam War. \nCraig Van Hout likes to visit the diorama. But when he sees other museum visitors “basically do a 60-second walk-by\, I want to say get back here!” He wants them to take it in completely\, and understand what happened at Ripcord. \nHe knows\, because he was there\, with his comrades of the 506th Regiment\, 101st Airborne Division – too many of whom never made it home. He will talk about the experience in a free lecture at noon on Friday\, Feb. 24\, at the Relic Room. Those who attend can broaden their knowledge of the war further after the program by visiting the major new exhibit that fills the museum’s Cistern Gallery – “A War With No Front Lines: South Carolina and the Vietnam War\, 1965-1973.” \nThe battle Craig Van Hout and the other American soldiers fought at Ripcord is remembered as one of the bloodiest of the war. They lost 139 killed. Four hundred were wounded in the month of July alone. Three Medals of Honor and six Distinguished Service Crosses were awarded to men who were there that month. \nThe last night\, just before Craig’s unit had to abandon the base\, was the worst. Alpha company fought a running battle against North Vietnamese regulars – NVA – on another hill nearby. Fourteen of them were killed\, and 56 were wounded. When it was over\, “only 10 men walked back into the company area at Camp Evans.” \nThe next day\, Craig and his team were ordered to lay down a field of fire as the helicopters came in to evacuate them from Ripcord. That’s when he was hit by an enemy mortar round. He was seriously wounded\, and not for the first time. He had multiple piece of shrapnel in his skull. He went around looking for help\, but all the medics had already been flown out. It took him three days to get treated in an actual hospital because “the hospitals were full.” \nAfter he went home\, Craig never went back to Vietnam. But he’s thought a lot about it\, and not just about the guys who fought on his own side. He wonders what it was like for “some poor North Vietnamese guy who walked all the way down the Ho Chi Minh Trail” carrying five heavy artillery rounds on his back – either on bicycle or walking. He hand-carried those shells into the mountains\, to the NVA artillery position. Craig contemplates the contrast to what he experienced at Ripcord\, an artillery base where all the ammunition was flown in by helicopter. \nThen\, Craig imagines how before the North Vietnamese guy even turned around to leave\, “Those five rounds had been fired at Ripcord.” At him and his buddies\, killing so many of them. \nCraig survived\, and lives in Columbia today. He’s glad to be able to tell the story to fellow Americans who weren’t there – especially since when it happened\, nobody back home heard about it. \nA year earlier\, at another hill there in the A Shau valley\, soldiers of the 101st had also sustained heavy losses. It became the subject of a Hollywood movie you may have seen\, or at least heard of – “Hamburger Hill.” \nRipcord fell at a time when the Nixon administration wasn’t talking much about battles and losses. Consequently\, “Nobody ever heard of Ripcord” back in the States\, says Craig. \nBut they can come hear him tell the story now. \n  \nFor more information\, go to https://crr.sc.gov/.
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SUMMARY:SwordFest 2023
DESCRIPTION:Just when you thought it was safe to go out without your sword and shield\, SwordFest is back\, yet again\, at the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum. \nCome on out – admission is free. SwordFest 2023 starts at 10 a.m. and runs until at least 3 p.m. on Saturday\, Feb. 11. \nThe peace of our city will again be disturbed by clanging and swishing of every kind imaginable – and for the sixth time! And if you’ve been to SwordFest before\, you know this isn’t your average historical uprising of swordfighters. It’s more like every kind of bladed weaponry all coming at you at once. But without harmful intent\, of course. \nThis year\, the annual event will feature the following\, and more: \n\nThe Roman IX Legion will be there\, with each legionnaire of the re-enactment group wielding his own gladius or spatha.\nIaido\, the Japanese art of sword-drawing\, will be demonstrated\, thanks to Dan Bernardo of WellWithin in Columbia.\nYou’ll be able to see how Wade Hampton’s 19th-century South Carolina cavalrymen used their sabers.\nAnd fiction – science fiction – will mix with history\, when the Aiken Saber Club demonstrates how it was hypothetically done a long time ago\, in a galaxy far\, far away – with lightsabers.\nThe Aikido group will show you how Japanese swordsmen can be disarmed – which might come in handy someday.\nGentlemen in shining armor will appear\, known as the Palmetto Knights Steel Combat Team.\nAnd something new: practitioners of Kendo\, a fast-moving modern sport practiced in protective gear with bamboo swords.\nAnd of course\, as always\, kids will have the chance to practice their own techniques – with safe “swords” made of foam\, of course.\nYou’ll also be able to see the real\, historical thing\, by checking out the swords in the museum’s extensive collection.\n\nAnd more\, as we said – the schedule is still growing as the event approaches. And it’s all free! \nSo is admission to the museum itself – which makes this a prime opportunity to visit our major new exhibit\, “A War With No Front Lines: South Carolina and the Vietnam War\, 1965-1973.” It fills the 2\,500-square-foot Cistern gallery with artifacts and stories brought back by veterans from our state. Whether you’ve seen it before or not\, it’s worth coming to learn more about your neighbors’ experiences in that faraway\, bitter conflict. \nFor more information\, go to https://crr.sc.gov/.
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SUMMARY:Gen. ‘Fig’ Newton will tell his impressive story of service in war and peace
DESCRIPTION:Gen. Lloyd “Fig” Newton has a lot of fascinating stories to tell\, having led a life of adventure and distinction serving his country. \nHe is a retired U.S. Air Force four-star general from South Carolina. He flew 269 combat missions in F-4s in the Vietnam War\, 79 of them over North Vietnam. In 1974\, he became the first African-American pilot to fly as a member of the Air Force’s Thunderbirds demonstration team. \nGen. Newton will tell about all of that and much more at noon on Friday\, June 24\, at the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum in Columbia. The program is open to the public and free. \nMuch of what he will speak about is included in his autobiography\, Living the Dream\, released last year. \nAs a boy\, Newton’s dream was to serve in the military\, although not as a pilot. “I didn’t know anything about airplanes growing up.” He never flew in one until he was in college at Tennessee State in Nashville. Why did he go out of state to college? Well\, he also wanted to study mechanical engineering\, and he couldn’t do that at home\, because the University of South Carolina and Clemson weren’t integrated yet. \nThat first flight hooked him – “It was electrifying!” – and launched him on his life’s work. And while he was still at Tennessee State in 1964\, he saw the Thunderbirds perform for the first time\, and decided he would join them one day – which he did 10 years later. \nHe is thankful to have survived his grueling Vietnam service\, during which he earned the Legion of Merit\, two Distinguished Flying Crosses\, and 17 Air Medals. Most of all\, “I returned safely\, unlike some of my colleagues\, my friends.” \nHe was stationed in the Philippines next\, and from there he applied for the first time to the Thunderbirds. He would have to apply twice more before he made it. \nLater he served in Washington as an Air Force congressional liaison officer with the U.S. House of Representatives. He served in the Pentagon a couple of times\, at one point helping to develop such new aircraft as the F-22\, the B-2 and the F-117 stealth attack plane. \nToday\, Gen. Newton lives in Bluffton\, S.C.\, just about 35 miles from his hometown of Ridgeland. \n  \n 
URL:https://whosonthemove.com/event/gen-fig-newton-will-tell-his-impressive-story-of-service-in-war-and-peace/
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