I love old magazines; they don’t mince words. In their retelling of how toddler Peter Jackson came to be the “sensation of the late London season” at the Horse Guards Parade, they made sure to make mention that he was only there because his poor father was jobless and had nowhere else to be, since he wasn’t supporting his family. Was that necessary?
Two-year-old Peter, overcome with emotion, could not simply watch the Mounting of the Guard. He had to be a part of it. It was not a protest at all, but imitation in the highest. Slipping away from the supervision of his father, Peter dashed out onto the grounds, secured his toy rifle (albeit on the wrong shoulder), and marched with military form, to the delight of onlookers. In this image, he is shouting an order, immediately followed by a fearful reaction to his own voice, and flees back to the arms of his papa.
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Quite an interesting time there, Kerbey.
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I wonder what order a two year old would shout? “More cookies!”
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They obviously gave us a needless fact, and withheld the more important one.
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Always asking the real questions….
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Eividently one fact furthered their agenda the other didn’t.
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How different, now the parents would be shamed on Youtube or Twitter for “neglecting” their child.
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You know it.
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🙂 indeed
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Today the social media warriors would be all tore up that the kid was marching with a toy rifle.
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That was my first thought. People would lose their minds over it.
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