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To: V_TWIN

The demise of Boy Scouts started years ago actually...
I once guided trout fishing around the Great Smoky Mtns Nat’l Park...

I had noticed quite a bit of litter along the river banks and got an idea...I told the leader of a Boy Scout troop in Knoxville that I would take them trout fishing and furnish rods, reels and lures if they would spend a couple hours walking the banks and picking up litter...

He said no, that they were busy learning and studying about computers...That did it for me as far as “scouting” was concerned...


3 posted on 11/30/2025 6:25:42 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: JBW1949

As a boy scout some of our weekend trips to local state parks back in the 60s we would spend a few hours re-doing and making walking trails.


17 posted on 11/30/2025 7:06:29 AM PST by Jolla
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To: JBW1949

Scouts orgs get paid to “study computers” by outfits like USAID. But, like watching anything from Disney in last decade it will be poisoned by propaganda. That is the purpose.


47 posted on 11/30/2025 8:21:58 AM PST by bobbo666
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To: JBW1949
That is a sad pitiful story. Picking up litter by a mountain trout stream in the Smokies would
be a great experience for the youngsters. It would be teaching why Scouting was founded.

59 posted on 11/30/2025 4:53:27 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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