When I was a boy, I was a pretender. I played cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians, and of course we won World War II many times, without getting wounded even once.

I watched men in movies and on TV who were also pretending. The difference is, they get paid a lot.

And, of course, they got to ride real horses. Now, is that fair? After all these years, I never once got to ride a horse off into the sunset.