When I was a kid, my brother and I used to watch the television series “Combat,” which aired from 1962 to 1967. The show was about a U.S. army squadron in France during World War II. When my brother and I played army, he would always be Sarge (Vic Morrow), and I would be Lt. Hanley (Rick Jason). We also had plastic army soldiers like the ones in “Toy Story,” and one of these we called Sarge, too, because Vic Morrow was so cool. During this time, I would save allowance money to buy model kits of battleships, submarines,
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