Eaglewings
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When I was a boy, my friends and I often ran around the neighborhood playing army. This was a blue collar neighborhood where just about every father was a WWII veteran, including my dad. I had the coolest gun...a replica M-16 my dad bought me for my birthday. Plus I would sometimes wear a German Luftwaffe helmet my dad brought home from the war. I wonder what all those WWII veterans thought of a little boy running around wearing a Nazi helmet.I loved those bubble guns, and got the big squirt guns for my boys to run around and play in the back yard. But I didn't like guns around my kids until they grew up.
I found a picture of my high school where we had a rifle class offered, everyone had a rifle in the picture.. We have changed so much since then.
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I had a very similar experience playing army, with the boys climbing trees. Remember those green army guys. my dad fought in WWII as well. lol Good simple times weren't they.
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