Toys for Tots

What all schoolchildren learn
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return
--September 1, 1939, W. H. Auden
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Canadian reader tw sent us the above photo on Veteran's day with the following description:

In Canada they call Veterans Day, Remembrance Day. The kids in RVN deserve remembering as veterans, too. They had it forced on them. Here's one of their toys.

The Bud can has a empty cartridge wound in a rubber band with a bamboo trigger. Pull the trigger and rat a tat tat you had an M-16. The pistol at the bottom of the pic is made of crate strapping or banding. Roll the spring mechanism back and put it under the handle. Put a stone on top and squeeze the handle and voila! A pistol that shoots stones. (These toys compliments of our interpreters who just loved the kids)

Maybe you've seen them. The toys of a war zone. That's a sad commentary on something! (No wonder they had no problems making booby traps.) They deserve status as vets, too, though.

Thanks, tw.