[jmcenanly]

This sounds as fresh as though it had been written this morning, yet the Scouts who read it are now approaching their 60's.

[mommya]

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.

[Maine Mariner]

I still have the handbook that was published just before this one.

[Clint N. Suhks]

When you reach the age of voting citizenship

You are no longer a Boy Scout. :o(

Sad the irony. But you are Prepared!

[newheart]

Bfl

[Yosemitest]

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."

[boop]

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.

[Jet Jaguar]

Scouting ping.

[SandRat]

Try already in their 60’s in my case and still in Scouting teaching Scouting to another generation.

[Myrddin]

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.

[krb]

you will know the true meaning of democracy and of liberty

I do. Liberty is the goal we should share, and democracy fights it every step of the way.

[RonF]

I tried to serve on a jury. I was questioned closely by the defense and prosecuting lawyers. They decided that I was too well informed in subject matters pertaining to the case (it was a malpractice suit and I’ve worked for a medical device company and a hospital) and would be likely to make up my own mind about things rather than depending purely on what they told me.