In 1988, my wife and I had to bury our 13-year-old son who died as a result of an auto accident. We buried him in his Boy Scout uniform. The Boy Scouts of America still existed then and we were proud he was a very active member. He had achieved the rank of Life Scout. We have kept his merit badge sash.
Those who have destroyed that wonderful organization should be forever ashamed of themselves but THEY HAVE NO SHAME.
Kudos to Pete Hegseth ! I salute you, sir, in the proud memory of The (REAL) Boy Scouts of America.
How terrible...you have my sympathy.
The Boy Scouts were once a great organization that helped many boys become men.
Those skills I learned regarding first aid, survival, etc. I first learned as a Scout. And I have always seen value in Scouting, an activity where boys could be around other boys and work in a group.
It isn’t the “No Girls Allowed” mentality. It was the recognition that boys, especially teenage boys, behave one way when they are around boys where they can be taught the difference between the undesirable choice of being a “gang” of boys, and the desirable goal of learning to work as a team with other boys, a skillset that will last them their whole lives.
But when even one girl is present at that age, their behavior as boys is no longer channeled into working as a team, it is, due to biology, turned to competition for the attention and favors of a girl.
Biology at that age simply dictates it. And they destroyed it both by allowing girls to participate, and by allowing open homosexuality.
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While sad to hear, those of us from the original BSA understand the respect you showed him. We were just kids, but we knew that uniform represented high standards and we were expected to live up to them.
I joined the Cub Scouts, the Boy Scouts, and Explorer Scouts. Those were many years to look back on. In High School a local car dealer eqipped us with fire fighting equipment and a jeep. We were called out often to fight forest fires by the State Conservation and Forestry Service. It was a different organization then that prepared boys for manhood.