Did you know there's a place called D-Day Adventure Park? Me neither, but there is, and now's about the time it goes crazy with commemorative events. The biggest involves about 3,000 paintball enthusiasts who travel to D-Day Adventure Park each year to mark D-Day (one of the most important battles in U.S. military history) with an epically-big paintball game re-creation, according to Reuters.
The D-Day paintball battle takes place between June 6 and June 11 at the D-Day Adventure Park in the tiny Oklahoma hamlet of Wyandotte, a town with a population of 500 on a day when there aren't thousands of D-Day reenactors milling about. It's billed as the world's biggest paintball game. Wyandotte resident and D-Day paintball reenactment creator Dwayne Convirs told Reuters he started the event 14 years ago with just a handful of people to honor his grandfather, a D-Day veteran.
The stakes are high in this paintball game, according to Reuters:
Having lived in the South, I know how serious Civil War reenactors take their craft. It sounds like these paintball World War II enthusiasts in Oklahoma do, too. And the winner is not predetermined at this D-Day recreation. According to Reuters, the Allies have lost to the Axis powers three years running.
The folks over at D-Day Adventure Park have posted a video of a reenactor dancing in preparation of his battle. Enjoy:
http://youtu.be/VJc1CF9g1RA
