This is what made America great

We would melt down lead we found on the side of the road and cast toy soldiers, ships and airplanes. I still wish that my parents hadn’t given all that away when we moved and I was 11. That stuff is worth a pretty penny.

And I’m sure (sarc) that we didn’t have any lead exposure…
 
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a stick and a rock and one little brother to hit the rock at oh the fun old days burying them waste deep in the swamp so you and your friends could run off leaving them there to cry alone for hours oh those were the days .
 
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Not sure about you boomers, but I had real guns as a kid.
I'm a boomer. Shot dads guns when he would let me. Got a hand-me-down .22lr from him when I was 10. Kept it in my room, along with the ammo, hanging on a wall rack. The next year, got his old Win. Model 88 lever action .308 w/4x Weaver. Hung right above the .22 on the same rack, along with the ammo for it.
But, yeah, bags of plastic army men, green duece's, and being grounded from F'n up my mom's flower beds back in the way younger days. Mac:oops:
 
I always admired that stuff in the Sears catalogs and would dog ear the pages, but other than a cap gun an uncle gave us, we made do with homemade “weapons”. A child’s imagination cannot be bested by anything.

That was the lingerie section. You think mom didn't know why the pages were stuck together?
 
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I got started early