[Quilla]

Any FReepers going to the BSA National Annual Meeting in Atlanta this summer?

Prayers for Michael.

[Scoutmaster]

Warning: this reply is NOT about the missing Scout.

The three best things about the BSA Annual Meeting are:

talking with the volunteers with 50+ years in Scouting about "how things used to be;"

luck of the draw in seating for the Region Banquets (I once sat between the curator of Norman Rockwell works at the National Museum and the Eagle Scout who had been selected for a six-month stint in Antarctica by the London Geographic Society); and

listening to some of the stories of Scouts who were receiving awards for saving lives during the preceding year.

The young man who became famous as the helicopter pilot shot down and taken POW during the first weeks of Afghanistan is an Eagle Scout from Texas. I think I've already written about his (unintentionally) hilarious description of being shot down and taken POW during the National Meeting in Philly a few years back.