05-09-2008, 11:03 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Poteet, Texas
Posts: 860
| Free Survival Training Wanna learn to live in the Wild, build a fire without matches, tie knots, all that other things you'd like to know? Volunteer to help with a Boy Scout Troop. They’re not as ‘in’ as they once were but they’re still around. |
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05-09-2008, 11:55 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: New York
Posts: 1,605
| You also will get to help mold the next generation of this country. You can help them understand camping and conservation. You will be associating with boys open to the idea that Duty, Honor, Country still means something in the United States (and not just at West Point or the other service academies, private military colleges and maritime academies), and why it's still meaningful. Where I live, Scouting isn't "in" at all; the 'cool kids' regard it with disdain. But 100 years after it all began, I feel the program, denatured and more touchy-feely compared to what it was in my day, is still relevant to raising boys to have good character. |
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05-10-2008, 07:53 AM
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| Registered User Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 10
| Amen to all the above. While Scouting has changed over the last 30 years, it has changed far, far less than anything else. That is a very good thing in my opinion. |
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05-10-2008, 09:11 AM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: AnchorTown, Alaska
Posts: 6,866
| Boy Scouting is still a fine tradition!
__________________ Thank God we don't get as much Government as we pay for! -Will Rogers |
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