I remember being part of a group of kids that spent all our free time roll playing WWII battles in the local park and around our neighborhood. There were about 10 of us in our small community who had relatives (grandfathers, great-uncles + such) that either fought Hitler in Europe or Tojo in the South Pacific and we idolized them as heroes (still do). The Vietnam War was still being fought at the time and some of us also had family fighting over there at that time as well. All in all, we must have had some 20 kids that participated and each of us would insist that Santa got us the coolest toy weapons every Christmas. What couldn’t be found under the Christmas tree or in the toy stores, we would make up in our tool sheds or basements. I remember once making a cardboard tube bazooka which eventually got used as a main gun on a mock-up tank we made out of plywood, 2x4s and an old go-cart. We even had a couple of girls that participated as soldiers, field nurses, hostages, messengers and spies. We would draw straws to determine who fought as the enemy and luckily I only remember a couple of occasions when I had to fight on the side of the axis. It was truly a golden time in our lives and we all had so much fun. As blog goddess SondraK points out, times be changin’! Kids today can’t even play a simple game of tag! WTF is that all about?!?! Unfortunately, it’s really quite sad that today’s PC police and Freudian peaceniks have made it nearly impossible for kids to have real wholesome fun anymore.
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