Posted on 09/29/2006 5:51:27 PM PDT by CplM
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Wow!
Cav Scouts are Marines?
I support the troops in other ways. But not through the Girl Scouts, who have become the human shield for NARAL and Planned Parenthood. The Girls Scouts, very unfortunately, aren't what they used to be.
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I absolutely agree with you. We have not bought Girl Scout cookies for the last three years. And, we used to like them alot. But they have become a front for radical feminism, the anti-life pro-abortion kind of feminism.
I also don't get it. I went to the website and it looks like they are sending the cookies to Marine units, not to (Army) cavalry units. Maybe the girls scouts don't know there is a big difference? I am not sure who will be the most offended - actual cav units or the Marines.
- Former member First of the Ninth Air Cav
There's an Army milblogger (A Soldier's Perspective ) whose young daughter wants to do something nice for a bunch of Marines. She wants to send boxes of Girl Scout Cookies to them, and we can help her.
Follow the link for how you can help.
Thanks!
The local Girl Scouts have a similar program going. The customer is offered the opportunity to buy boxes to be sent over. Being as I am addicted to the Thin Mints and Tagalongs I always kick in a couple boxes for the soldiers (even Marines).
Our Girsl Scout/Brownie Troop won't be doing cookies until January, but I do know that last year our Brownie Troop had over 100 boxes ordered just to be sent to the roops overseas.
Since I will be in charge of cookies this year, I will be encouraging the program even more so than I did last year.......that means less boxes for me to store and sort and see are picked up on time :)
Got the word from CJ last night. What a great family!
The blogger, whose daughter's troop is selling the cookies, offered his readers a chance to nominate what unit would receive the cookies. A fellow blogger, a Marine reservist, "won" with his recommendation of another Marine reservist whose unit is serving in a very remote FOB. If nothing else, I think this demonstrates the UNITY of our awesome troops because the "cookie selling" blogger is in the Army. That blogger probably just didn't want to spend the time re-coding the HTML to change the button icon; last year the cookies DID go to an Army unit.
Besides, since when did ANY service member get offended by receiving cookies??? (That is a joke from a once-and-always civilian who is very proud of ALL branches of the US military.)
I am a troop leader for my daughter's Brownie Troop (1st - 3rd grade) and we have sent cookies to the troops the past 2 years as a troop project.
As for the GSA being a front for feminism and NARAL, I know the situation. With our girls we are emphasizing the traditional scouting principles - including religion! I have seen a several families opt for the scout troop run through their church rather than the public schools - and that is fine. With girls as young as ours we have been able to control the environment. As the girls get older - moving into Jr HS and HS - it will be harder and I will see how I feel about us continuing with scouting.
It does make it easier - and I know the troops will like them.
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