Stephen, maybe this guard was a little over zealous but to give the devil his due the boy should have had sense enough not to pull it out of his pocket in there. I just thought it humorous because of the flag on it. For what it is worth, he had just bought it a few days earlier at a gas station somewhere in Missouri.

He uses them to kick in the air as a sort of soccer ball. I see lots of kids with them. Anyway, leave it up to a 12 year old to scare the guards in Springfield with a hacky-sack. I also wonder if this particular guard ever had an ancestor serve at Camp Douglas or Rock Island. If so I can only imagine how this guard would have handled having to oversee real live honest to God secess soldiers.

"Ain't them Rebs sneaky" LOL!