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Posted on 04/07/2010 7:34:39 PM PDT by jmcenanly
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This sounds as fresh as though it had been written this morning, yet the Scouts who read it are now approaching their 60's.
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posted on
04/07/2010 7:34:39 PM PDT
by
jmcenanly
To: jmcenanly
Nice. Is this still in the current handbook?
I guess I need to get over to the scout shop - my boy’s first meeting is Monday - he got his Cub Scout Arrow of Light and crossed over about 2 weeks ago.
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posted on
04/07/2010 7:41:10 PM PDT
by
mommya
To: jmcenanly
I still have the handbook that was published just before this one.
To: mommya
Congratulations to your son crossing over. Mine crossed over 3 years ago. He is going to the National Jamboree at Fort AP Hill at the end of July.
To: mommya
I guess I need to get over to the scout shop - my boys first meeting is Monday - he got his Cub Scout Arrow of Light and crossed over about 2 weeks ago.Good luck to him. I got my Eagle card in 1982. I still have it in my wallet.
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posted on
04/07/2010 7:45:56 PM PDT
by
Onelifetogive
(Flame away...)
To: jmcenanly
When you reach the age of voting citizenship You are no longer a Boy Scout. :o(
Sad the irony. But you are Prepared!
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posted on
04/07/2010 8:00:01 PM PDT
by
Clint N. Suhks
(Jim Bunning we will miss you. Palin/Cheney 2012)
To: mommya
Is this still in the current handbook? Gimme a few I'll go look what last years said.
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posted on
04/07/2010 8:14:22 PM PDT
by
Domandred
(Fdisk, format, and reinstall the entire .gov system.)
To: jmcenanly
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posted on
04/07/2010 8:18:38 PM PDT
by
newheart
(History is an outbreak of madness--Ellul)
To: Domandred; mommya
Nope, 1984 version and 2009 version are quite a bit different than the 1965 version. Definitely doesn't say "if the call should come, die for it!".
2009 version talks about the military protecting our borders. Also says something like "ignorance, apathy, and prejudice are enemies of the country. Defeat those by taking advantage of educational opportunities."
I did find something interesting in the 1984 version though that I forgot about:
The American's Creed
I believe in
the United States of America as a Government of the people, by the poeple, for the people;
whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed, a democracy in a republic;
a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States;
a perfect Union, one and inseperable;
established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrified their lives and fortunes.
I therefore believe it is my duty to my country
to love it;
to support its Constitution;
to obey its laws;
to repect its flag;
and to defend it against all enemies. (foreign and domestic)
Okay I added the last foreign and domestic in parenthesis.
I didn't see that in the 2009 version.
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posted on
04/07/2010 8:34:34 PM PDT
by
Domandred
(Fdisk, format, and reinstall the entire .gov system.)
To: jmcenanly
Didn't our Heavenly Father, through our Savior tell us...
" thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother."
How well we deserve this curse (~so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things~) God has given us, through the ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN CHIEF, the FASCIST Obama.
This too shall pass...(probably is coming to pass ... right now)
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor,
and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them;
ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
Let us be ... a "thorn in their side".
"But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes,
and thorns in your sides,
and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.
Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them."
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posted on
04/07/2010 8:38:24 PM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's simple, fight or die.)
To: Domandred
Interesting. Thank You.
The older stuff is better, a much more powerful message.
I like the Creed.
I think I will print it all out and give it to the Scout Master.
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posted on
04/07/2010 8:41:51 PM PDT
by
mommya
To: jmcenanly
It implores the scouts to study all political parties and decide which one is best. In 1965 there were DEMOCRATS that make todays conservatives look like Sean Penn.
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posted on
04/07/2010 9:21:30 PM PDT
by
boop
(Democracy is the theory that the people get the government they deserve, good and hard.)
To: Yosemitest
Yours was the fifties book.
This is the Sixties edition.
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posted on
04/07/2010 9:23:41 PM PDT
by
higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
To: SandRat
To: jmcenanly
Try already in their 60’s in my case and still in Scouting teaching Scouting to another generation.
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posted on
04/07/2010 9:32:31 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
To: RonF; AppauledAtAppeasementConservat; Looking for Diogenes; Congressman Billybob; ...
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posted on
04/07/2010 9:34:30 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
To: mommya
I take it that “crossed over” doesn’t mean that your son had died. Is that Boy Scout jargon for something?
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posted on
04/07/2010 9:38:45 PM PDT
by
Theo
(May Rome decrease and Christ increase.)
To: Theo
I take it that crossed over doesnt mean that your son had died. Is that Boy Scout jargon for something? Crossing over is a term used for when a cub scout turns into a boy scout.
To: BulletBobCo
Thank you for the explanation. I was both a cub scout and a boy scout, and had never heard that term. Sounds kind of morbid.
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posted on
04/07/2010 9:54:13 PM PDT
by
Theo
(May Rome decrease and Christ increase.)
To: jmcenanly
That printing date is right in line with when I joined the Scouts. It was a Wednesday evening meeting. A hike on the C&O Canal was scheduled for Saturday, but you had to be at least a Tenderfoot to go. Thursday was Memorial Day. I studied on Wednesday night and went to the scoutmaster's house on Thursday afternoon. Bingo! Tenderfoot overnight. It was 1967. In July, I went to Scout camp at the Goshen Scout camps. July 18th I earned my 2nd class badge. By the end of year, I had made First Class and had all the merit badges completed for Star.
It was April 12th 1972 when the board of review approved me as an Eagle Scout. The next most significant event was graduation from UCSD in June 1976. Frankly, the life lessons learned in Scouts have been more practically useful than even the college degree.
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posted on
04/07/2010 11:47:00 PM PDT
by
Myrddin
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