And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I didn't have that toy, but I had other, similar toys. Mostly I had books, and I was reading at a much higher grade level than most of my peers. I read Pat Franks' classic novel of a post nuclear USA(Alas, Babylon) when I was 8-9, and went on to read Herman Kahn's On Thermonuclear War around the age of 10. I exchanged letters with Mr. Kahn, and somewhere I got his autograph on a copy of the book.
I've probably read over a hundred books on nuclear war, and the most accurate fictional version is probably Eric Harry's Arc Light, although I disliked his cop-out at the end.
I've seen nuclear war toys at toy shows around the midwest and east coast, but given my overflowing model room(think American Hoarders...), my better half prefers that I not collect that stuff.
I remember those!
ReplyDeleteNo... you'll put your eye out.
ReplyDeleteI almost put my eye out. Learned something. Went back to playing.
DeleteI had something similar, but it was a grenade.
ReplyDeletestill have my "wanted- dead or alive mare's laig"
ReplyDeleteI didn't have that toy, but I had other, similar toys. Mostly I had books, and I was reading at a much higher grade level than most of my peers. I read Pat Franks' classic novel of a post nuclear USA(Alas, Babylon) when I was 8-9, and went on to read Herman Kahn's On Thermonuclear War around the age of 10. I exchanged letters with Mr. Kahn, and somewhere I got his autograph on a copy of the book.
ReplyDeleteI've probably read over a hundred books on nuclear war, and the most accurate fictional version is probably Eric Harry's Arc Light, although I disliked his cop-out at the end.
I've seen nuclear war toys at toy shows around the midwest and east coast, but given my overflowing model room(think American Hoarders...), my better half prefers that I not collect that stuff.
That's a Bomarc missile on the white pad at the right.
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