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Plans to rebuild HB's on the Gulf and Sunset Beach Bar are advancing in Naples, with a few more hoops to jump through before construction can start.

Plans to rebuild HBs on the Gulf and Sunset Beach Bar are advancing in Naples, with a few more hoops to jump through before construction can start.

When there are World War II reenactments, someone has to play the bad guy. “It’s a costume, man,” one guy in an SS uniform said. They were playing a role, but they were also there to serve as educators, as amateur historians.

Someone has to play the bad guy. Someone has to play the Nazi. Otherwise, how do you teach history?

"We deliver a story, say what happened," say some who don German uniforms at Rockford’s annual World War II Days. But some historians and Holocaust experts say that kind of reasoning can be shallow.

Dirt could soon be flying on renovations to HBs and the Sunset Beach Bar in Naples.