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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!

I'm actually getting more involved than I wanted to. Loving every minute and thoroughly impressed by the entire organization. We live near an Air National Guard Base and are on schedule to be the first group for a tour since 9-11.

Of course, since according to JF'inK they are not real pilots and their service to America does not count, I gues we should'nt waste out time going.

Every time I see a F-16 scream over my house, I laugh at these weekend warriors playing pilot and complain about the noise...NOT. I realize that that sound is the price of freedom.