Nothing better to heal somebody else’s body than shaving your head.
What a kind thing for them to do. Baldness would be a vast improvement for a lot of the boys in our troop ... not that I wish cancer on anybody ...
“I like my new do,” smiled Scott Lowry, 15. “I think I look beautiful.”
The BSA sure has change over the last 45 years. It’s impossible to imagine to imagine any of the scouts in my old troop admiring their “do” or preening that they “look beautiful.”
That troop number, 444, was the same number of the Boy Scout troop I belonged to in Chicago during WWII. The troop was sponsored by the local Catholic church (Immaculate Conception) in a Chicago neighborhood known as Bridgeport. Both have since been shuttered including any Boy Scout association with most churches.
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