Recently, my wife and I have been spending Mondays watching our soon-to-be 4 year old grandson at our home.
It turns out that this young lad is quite interest in playing with toy plastic soldiers.
As soon as he enters the house in the morning, the first thing he asks is to play with army men.
So, to accommodate this request, I have pulled out my shoebox of vintage green U.S. army soldiers. These date back to the early 1970s and are the typical green guys that every kid from that era had.
The soldiers of my collection are all solid veterans of many battles! Over the course of the past several decades, they've definitely been knocked over countless times by rubber bands (small arms fire), and heavy artillery (Nerf gun bullets)!
My own kids and grand-kiddoes have also played with them over the years, but I'm usually around to insure that they don't get treated too roughly or lost.
The soldiers, that is.
So, just the other day, my youngest grandson and I built a large fort out of many-colored Mega-Bloks and spent the entire morning setting up and knocking down my beleaguered vintage green army!
Cheers!
