Toy inventors pitch patriotic, feel-good toys post-9/11

Not long after Confederate troops bombarded Union soldiers at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor at the first battle of the Civil War in 1861, Milton Bradley designed a lightweight kit of games for the Union troops. Called Games for the Soldiers, the pack contained portable editions of chess, checkers, The Checkered Game of Life, backgammon and five varieties of dominoes.
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February 1, 2002

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