This Bomb is for Ole Hitler the Skunk
by Bennett Holzworth, (4 comments)
When I saw Adrian’s post concerning wartime advertising in comic books, I immediately thought of these scribbles. This is a young boy’s drawing in his math book. I picked the book up a while ago at a massive book sale. I would assume this drawing was done during WWII. I thought this would put a little more context to the time period. Comments away… or not.
Comments (4)
Adrian said:
When I was a kid, probably around 3rd grade, I remember drawing elaborate war scenes with tanks, planes, soldiers and bombs filling the page. We weren’t even at war at the time. That is probably a pretty common thing. I wonder why war is so cool to a little boy? Definitely more fun than math…
Posted on May 13, 2005
kadavy said:
Wow! What a find!
Posted on May 13, 2005
Alex said:
Adrians post reminds me of a story a coworker of mine told me recently:
He grew up on a small ranch in western North Dakota. His parents would not allow him and his brother to play with toy guns, plastic swords, sharp sticks or threatening objects of any kind. Because of this they began development of a secret weapons program in their fathers woodworking shop. Under the cover of a wholesome wooden toy building seminar they crafted M-16’s AK-47’s and a nice selection of handguns, all in remarkable detail. Unfortunately their undoing came following a brazen daylight assault on the neighbor boys two miles down the road. Apparently the enemy combatants told on them, resulting in immediate disarmament.
It is interesting though. For the most part, if you’re a guy you have that desire inside you to be fierce. The question then remains, fierce against what?
Posted on May 18, 2005
Bennett said:
Good story Alex. I will share one as well.
I honor of the last installment of Star Wars, that will be showing at midnight, I will share this story. I didn’t watch violent movies or have violent video games growing up, but I still managed to come up with some pretty violent schemes in my play time. This is one of the lesser violent episodes.
My dad had cut me a wooden curved pirate sword for me and my neighbor friend. We had very specific instructions from my parents to not actually sword fight with it. That didn’t stop us from a little sword play. My neighbor friend had a hard plastic light saber and I had my wooden pirate sword. We got a little our of hand and I ended up with a little nick below my eye. That was the end of sword fighting and I didn’t see the wooden weapon for some time. That just goes to show that a pirate is no match for a Jedi
Posted on May 18, 2005