Reply #104: Same story here.

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When I was about 3-4 years old (yes, I remember back that far) I was asking my parents for guns, but my mother did not like guns and did not want me to play with them. So I made them out of sticks, and played "guns" or "cops and robbers" or "good guys and bad guys" with the neighbor kids. Eventually my Dad convinced my Mom that he can either play with toy guns made out of sticks or toy guns made out of plastic but either way I was already playing with toy guns.

We like to deny our nature as humans and we want to preserve the innocence we see in our children. But the fact of the matter is little boys have wanted to be war heroes since the beginning of time. Whether they were pretending to be Achilles, Charlemagne, Lancelot, Napoleon, Lee, Pershing, Patton, or Schwartscof, little boys have been pretending to fight like their heroes for as long as there have been heroes.