The makers of toys bring the universe to the hands and minds of children. They teach. They build teachers. The bits they put together add up to well more than the sum of their parts and their labor. They mold plastic and clay. They mold minds. God bless the toy makers.
Fessenden said he's has had the truck since 2007, when his brother Ernie, a software engineer in Rochester, Minn., and Kevin Guy, the owner of the Everything Hobby shop in Rochester, rigged it with a wireless video camera and shipped it to him.
Last week, he said, it paid off when he loaned the truck to a group of Soldiers who used it to check the road ahead on a patrol.
The tiny truck hit a trip wire and set off an estimated 500 pounds of explosives. The six Soldiers, controlling the toy in their following Humvee, escaped injury.
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His brother and hobby shop owner Kevin Guy said they're trying to send Chris a new truck.
"That's just unreal," said Guy when he learned of the recent incident. "That's six mothers that six guys are going home to."
How much would it cost to get say 1000 of these trucks to the troupes? I want to say "on the front line" but that term doesn't apply in this case.
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