Military reenactment doesn't do anything for memorial work. It glorifies war and killing machines, its whole purpose is to make death and misery look like an adventure. There is nothing that a reenactment does to make the fights look like the harbingers of death and fire and trauma that they actually were in war.
Like putting out uniforms and 599505 types of guns and tanks in museums, the effect is not that people learn about trauma and grief and desolation, but the aesthetic of the military and its different techniques of killing. Seeing smart uniforms and cool flight maneuvers does nothing to prevent war from happening again. War is not clean and pretty. War is chaos and fire and panic and death and injuries.
Most museum designs I visited throughout Europe today work differently. They focus on the individual perspective. They put trauma and the struggle to recover from seen horrors and PTSD out there to see, they show the muddy, dirty, lice and bacteria riddled reality of war right in front of your eyes, and they read you from war diaries. This is how you do memorial work to prevent atrocities from happening again. This is how you spark the desire to prevent wars from happening in people.
