My parents had us very young. We lived in a modest house. We built forts, we hiked, we went camping and they wanted us to be independent. It's how children grew up in the 1940s and 50s: outside all the time, playing in the dirt, riding your bike around.
“Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.”
“It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.”