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/src on/I hope the British version of Social Services does not take the boys away. Cannot have buys playing soldier./src off/
1 posted on 05/08/2020 5:26:26 AM PDT by C19fan
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Just like WWI, great until it rains.


2 posted on 05/08/2020 5:30:43 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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I remember getting my 10 year old son a WWII helmet at a garage sale and he would get dressed up as a soldier with his BB gun and play war. I had a premonition at that time and 8 years later he was jumping out of planes and helicopters with the 82nd Airborne Division. Two years after that he was in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thank God he came home in one piece.


3 posted on 05/08/2020 5:33:35 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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Awesome!
This is how kids used to play. And learn.


4 posted on 05/08/2020 5:35:41 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Leave me alone, I have no incriminating evidence on the Clintons)
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One would think the world would have celebrated the 75th like the 50th, but I guess the coronavirus got in the way.


5 posted on 05/08/2020 5:36:10 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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My recollection of the tales of WWII does not involve trenches.

Am I forgetting something?


9 posted on 05/08/2020 5:38:48 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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Not to be a party pooper but parents need to keep an eye on kids in trenches. A collapsed wall could be a potential killer.


18 posted on 05/08/2020 5:52:11 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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and the boys can now celebrate VE Day properly on Friday, May 8.


last sentence of the article.


22 posted on 05/08/2020 6:14:47 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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Boy on the right appears he is about to commit suicide.


31 posted on 05/08/2020 6:45:54 AM PDT by setter
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Speaking as an Underground Electrical worker Compete Man I have to say that this is a great way to lose your kids. Those trenches back in the day were shored up.

25000.00 fine if I did this back in the day.


32 posted on 05/08/2020 6:47:17 AM PDT by TalBlack
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I grew up on an air force base and we used to play war with BB guns and water balloons. Rules were you could never aim at the head with your BB gun and the water balloons were grenades.

We would climb on the roofs of houses and any tree insight. We probably had at least 20 kids playing and you had to stay within two blocks of base. We played for hours and wear camo and fight until the last person was still alive or when the street lights would turn on, then it was time to go home and eat.


40 posted on 05/08/2020 8:11:37 AM PDT by Dacula (Day 14 of Georgia opening up and I am still alive)
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