S1.E48 ∙ Baby Boom

Bikes Over Baghdad is a team of professional action sports athletes who have traveled to the Middle East numerous times in support of the troops. This is not a typical sports video of guys doing insane tricks in remote locations (though it has that), this is not a story about the sacrifices our soldiers make day in and day out (though that is in there as well), and this is not the diary of an adventure a group of friends embarked on (though again, there is that). What this is, is a story about what happens when people give for the good of others. When people put their own safety aside to make someones life a little better, and how selflessness can change lives.

It is a cold, blustery March day. The trees are still bare. Reenactors from many states gather for battle along Big Sugar Creek. This documentary takes you back in time one hundred fifty one years after the Civil War Battle of Pea Ridge. The rolling fields along the Arkansas - Missouri border are again filled with soldiers. They set up camps and cook on open fires. They pitch tents, feed their horses and clean their trusty rifles. A cold wind blows across the field but that does not stop the Federal of Confederate armies. Artillery thunders and belches fire. Blue and gray infantry cross the field on a collision course. The soldiers recreate the Battle of Pea Ridge, also known as the Battle of Elkhorn Tavern.