Green Plastic Army Men

When I was a kid Green Plastic Army Men were sold in bagfuls. Lots of time you could buy them out of the backs of comic books -- entire sets of American soldiers (who were always the green ones), enemy soldiers (can't remember the colors), tanks, planes, ships, who knows what else.

You could get all kinds of soldiers -- Cowboys and Indians, Civil War soldiers (oops, I mean the War Between the States, oops, I mean the War of Northern Aggression ), Roman centurions, spacemen, knights, and probably others I can't remember.

They all afforded hours of pleasure, until I melted all of them in a fiery conflagration.

Posted by Bob Wallace, who found the best battles were Green Army Men vs. dinosaurs.