Tanks A Lot

October 25, 1983, Neenah-Menasha Daily Northwestern

If I were the kids in this tour, I would have eaten this up with a spoon.  Of course this was closer to my era when kids still played "Army" for real in their yards, instead of shooting enemies on a screen.   It was a time when toy guns were cherished because they looked and sounded as as real as possible, no orange plugs on their ends to denote their toy status.  It's a different world now, one where no 10 year old can saunter anymore into a five and dime and come out with rolls of caps for his cowboy pistol.  No matter that five and dimes have gone the way of the dinosaur; the political climate wouldn't support kids doing that anyway.