Aged 6
We were set a school 'project' to write about what we wanted to be when we grew up. My Dad had recently just been telling me all about World War 2 and how we won (yay Britain!), so with my young heart welling up with patriotic fury, I naturally wrote that I wanted to be a tank driver and kill Germans. If I recall correctly I drew a touching picture of me in a tank replete with manic grin shooting a decapitated German Soldier who wasn't looking best pleased.

I think I got quite a bit of red pen telling me that this "Wasn't very nice" (this was 1994) and a sad face. Never did join the army. Probably for the best.
(xerophytic has no idea, Thu 13 Aug 2009, 16:05, 3 replies)

How times change!
When I was at primary school in the mid to late 70s our stories and pictures were almost invariably about Germans or Japanese being shot, stabbed and blown up in large numbers and nobody batted an eyelid. I remember writing one story where the Germans left a bunker only to have it taken over by some Japanese who wouldn't let them back in, and being told by the teacher that it would never have happened "because they fought in different theatres". Confused the hell out of me, that did.
(richardm, Thu 13 Aug 2009, 16:14, closed)

Yeah
I was at school mid 70's; I remeber at middle school doing a mosaic (out of painted egg shells) of a tank. Mind, Im still a bit obsessed with WW2 now
(kitescreech still here, Thu 13 Aug 2009, 16:59, closed)

Ha!
when I started secondary school in 1988, our German teacher told us we could decorate our german folders. She had to have "a talk" with us when half the class quite innocently drew swastikas and rat-a-tat boom aircraft/tank battle scenes.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 13 Aug 2009, 16:54, closed)