Vietnam Buffs Bring Jungle to Va.

Reenactors Evoke a War Many Would Rather Forget

By Phuong Ly
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, August 8, 2005; Page A01

Leaves rustled, and Robby Gouge, sweating in his jungle boots and Army fatigues, clutched his semiautomatic rifle tighter. He walked slightly crouched and listened intently, just as he thought his father might have done.

The 30-year-old son had come to the oak forests of central Virginia to relive his old man's war in Vietnam.