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I'm a cub scout den leader who loves teaching the boys to be boys and men. We meet at my house, and from day one, the boys gravitated toward the toy guns and swords before and after the meetings. My company is starting to do some military work. A few weeks ago, I brought them a piece of ballistic glass from a Humvee. Last night, I brought them a bomblet grenade designed to crater airstrips. (clearly marked INERT) I'm not sure how I'm going to top that one.

My daughter is a Girl Scout, but we're very careful about what she attends. It's a home school troop, so locally, she's fine. But on the Council level, I'm very distrustful.

Cub Scouts encourage the boys to wear their uniform to church one Sunday. We're doing it this Sunday and will recognize them for their achievements. Since Girl Scouts are a totally secular organization, they do not have a similar activity. Tough. This Sunday is Scout Sunday. All Scouts, boys and girls.

It sounds like your boys are having a wonderful time! Last year one of my sons' Dens went to the local Air National Guard base, and got to see all the munitions and the jets taking off. They were terribly impressed! And we took our kids in uniform to the "Support the Troops" rally.

My daughters are Girl Scouts (I'm a Daisy leader), and we also are careful about what goes on in the program. I'd say the Girl Scouts is an organization which has developed serious flaws, but still functions positively to an extent because most volunteers are decent people with common sense.

The Boy Scouts, on the other hand, is a fundamentally solid organization at the top, although some at the grass-roots level do not support the values of the organization. We've been unpleasantly surprised to find some adults even in our own church groups who think homosexual men should be allowed to be Boy Scout leaders!