Her Own Toy Story: How A 6-Year-Old Girl's Letter Launched 'Plastic Army Women'

This summer, a young girl from Arkansas wrote a Northeastern Pennsylvania toy company out of frustration. "My name is Vivian. I am six years old. Why do you not make girl army men?" wrote Vivian Lord to BMC Toys. To Jeff Imel, the president of BMC Toys, which makes the iconic Green Army Men …