Man, I would have been sent home a lot in todays schools. We drew nothing but battle scenes with bunkers, tanks, airplanes and lots of explosions. We took extra efforts to depict horrible and violent deaths by explosions. Wonder what today’s touchy feely types would have done to us. Remember, my cohort were the sons of WWII and Korean vets. One of our favorite past times was playing war.
“Man, I would have been sent home a lot in todays schools. We drew nothing but battle scenes with bunkers, tanks, airplanes and lots of explosions. We took extra efforts to depict horrible and violent deaths by explosions. Wonder what today’s touchy feely types would have done to us. Remember, my cohort were the sons of WWII and Korean vets. One of our favorite past times was playing war.”
Same here. In fact, when we were ages 10-14, about a half dozen of us in the neighborhood would take our BB guns and pellet guns and go to the abandoned gravel plant to shoot whatever suited us. Birds, chipmunks, cans, bottles...whatever. Today, can you imagine what would happen if six kids with pellet guns and BB guns were walking through a residential neighborhood? They’d call out the swat team, take them into custody, brand them as “terrorists” and seek to try them in adult criminal court. Of course there would be a full plate of “psychological evaluations” all around. After all, that’s what the USSR did with “dissidents.”