“Where I grew up in Northern Virginia the were numerous battles between cowboys and Indians along with full out assaults against Jap and Nazi positions every day. Weather and Moms permitting.”
We did the same thing. Every day we’d play “Army” or “cowboys and injuns”. All the girls wanted to do was play frickin’ “school”. We just had 3/4’s of the year in real school—and they wanted to “play it” during the summer. That’s probably why we did “commando” raids on their school houses...
However the adults, where I grew up, wore the real stuff! LOL
The girls in our neighborhood joined in with the boys sometimes carrying a gun and sometimes being nurses. Some of ‘em were good shots and really sneaky scouts, got ambushed more than ounce by them.
we used to play a game called Bunker Man.
there was an old barn set on a hillside covered by yearly mowed trees and heavy weeds.
the object was to hit inside the bunker with dirt clods or “die” by actually getting nailed with one in your assault.
!GOOOD TIMES!