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Raising Men: 100 Years of the Boy Scouts of America
Inside Catholic ^ | November 27, 2010 | Chuck Piola

Posted on 11/28/2010 2:13:18 PM PST by NYer

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1 posted on 11/28/2010 2:13:21 PM PST by NYer
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2 posted on 11/28/2010 2:13:53 PM PST by NYer ("Be kind to every person you meet. For every person is fighting a great battle." St. Ephraim)
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I was a scout, the best thing that happened to me back then.


3 posted on 11/28/2010 2:17:18 PM PST by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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What a shame that the American progressives/lefties have rendered the Scouts as meaningless in our nation today. Most people I know think it’s an archaic, bygone thing. Too bad. We need institutions like this.


4 posted on 11/28/2010 2:18:09 PM PST by surroundedbyblue
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5 posted on 11/28/2010 2:19:45 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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The scout oath, that’s right up there with a cross or bible to the vampire left. Everything good is bad and wholesome is corrupt.


6 posted on 11/28/2010 2:21:51 PM PST by Hans
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One of my grandchildren is in the last stages of earning his badge as an Eagle Scout, and his younger brother is doing well, too. I wish all my grandchildren were involved in scouting.

“On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country, to obey the scout law, to help other people at all times, and to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.”

If you say your prayers every morning before starting your day, you could do worse than to include this, no matter how old you are.


7 posted on 11/28/2010 2:27:49 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius.)
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We still call it a Board of Review. It's amazing the answers you get from some of these boys during those sessions. These kids have plans, even as pre-teens.

And I have had the pleasure of watching boys from my dens and troops grow to be succesful men in their own right. One even owns a house right across the street that isn't in danger of foreclosure.

8 posted on 11/28/2010 2:30:48 PM PST by Right_Handed_Writer (Change the Change -- Vote Right in 2010™)
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>>What a shame that the American progressives/lefties have rendered the Scouts as meaningless in our nation today.

The troops that serve a “Eagle Factories” have done more to damage scouting than the liberals. The ones that boast “we’ll make your son an Eagle in x years” have lost the point of the whole thing. The author of this article understands when he says that a boy can advance in rank and responsibility or just be a part of the team. Either way, the boy is learning to be man, especially the part about how you have to work for what you want and be content with what you’ve earned.


9 posted on 11/28/2010 2:31:50 PM PST by Bryanw92 (Obama is like a rocket scientist....who's trying to do brain surgery with a hammer.)
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10 posted on 11/28/2010 2:43:19 PM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis (Want to make $$$? It's Easy! Use FR to Pimp Your Blog!)
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These “Eagle Factories” sound like the companies that get people to the top of Everest, even if they have to carry them on the back of a Sherpa guide.

I spent three years in The Boy Scouts, and I wouldn’t trade it for anything. I learned a lot from it.


11 posted on 11/28/2010 2:43:30 PM PST by rlmorel ("We treat terrorists with kid gloves, and our citizens with rubber gloves." Rush Limbaugh)
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12 posted on 11/28/2010 2:44:13 PM PST by Roccus (OUR GOVERNMENT IS COMPRISED OF BUFFOONS, TRAITORS, CRIMINALS AND IDIOTS!!!!!!!)
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I couldn’t disagree with you more. I live in a heavily immigrant community. Roughly 80% of my neighbors are either Indian or Asian. These are people who haven’t grown up with Scouts as an institution. Yet we have a large number of scouts in our area. I’m the scout master for one such unit. We have every major world religion represented in the troop. All of these boys are learning leadership, responsibility, and citizenship. Their parents agree that these are things worth learning.

So scouting is considered relevant in my neighborhood!


13 posted on 11/28/2010 2:53:01 PM PST by fremont_steve
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LOL...I am the one with the BCEG device on my face (birth control eye glass)


(note the handshake...:)

14 posted on 11/28/2010 2:54:36 PM PST by rlmorel ("We treat terrorists with kid gloves, and our citizens with rubber gloves." Rush Limbaugh)
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The recent legal actions against the BS, the lack of support by a President and many other politicians as well as government agencies turning their back on the BS’s is very revealing about our society.

What they stand for hasn’t changed in 100 years, and what is happening with the BS in this country in reality is nothing more than another indicator of a society that is turning its back on morals, where men are emasculated, where there is a complete disconnect between people and nature (although the modern metro-sexual urban type wants to claim to be “natural, organic, sustainable, regenerative, green, holistic, and recycles”). Hedonism rules in a complete absence of duty, patriotism or honor. What the BS’s stands for is best captured in a Norman Rockwell painting, but of course even his art today is minimized and forgotten while we champion Robert Mapplethorpe or even use tax dollars to pay for a “Piss Christ.”

The BS’s stand for something that has little value to most nowadays and frankly some can’t even understand it, fear or are offended by the very values they hold on too. To people who were raised believing in a divided America based on race, national origin, religion and where the concept of the melting pot and fairness has been replaced with socialist egalitarianism even if it means being unfair to achieve the equal outcome, (affirmative action, hate crime laws) the basic philosophy of the BS’s is scary or offensive. The BS’s exist as a smaller subculture that is actually a portal to America’s past when it was growing in influence/power and prestige, a time when America looked to go higher, faster, further, deeper and personal culpability/responsibility ruled. It was a time where honor meant something and where ones integrity was vital in politics, business or even within the community. Today a Charles Rangle will go home and even though he’s a crook, his constituents will vote for him....... what does integrity or honor really mean today, in the age where a President purgers himself and argues the meaning of the word “is?” Today we are in a relative and secular world where it’s even considered cultured and intellectual to denounce God, to be self centered, sexually hyperactive and there in not even a concept of honor, integrity, duty, loyalty, patriotism...... Where family means as little as country and God they are the few, the type that still “cling to their guns and religion” and this is simply something that many in this country are turning their back on.

As with the views of many that marriage is superfluous, the divorce rates, the gay agenda, the falling rates of people who attend churches, the intentional childless couples, the difficulty of recruiters getting young men to join, the near complete lack of God or patriotism or family in modern art may it be paintings, sculpture, poetry, the Michael Moors and the millions like him that think they are smart, cool, and tough for actually being weak cowards............ To this society the BS’s is a joke, a bunch of irresponsible idiots that believe in God, might show a kid a rifle, that are close minded because of their views on gays........ The attacks on the BS’s is just an indicator among many within a society that has completely replaced its values and changed its perspectives. -IMHO


15 posted on 11/28/2010 2:54:52 PM PST by Red6 (IMHO)
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They haven’t rendered them meaningless, but it isn’t for lack of trying on their part...


16 posted on 11/28/2010 2:56:02 PM PST by rlmorel ("We treat terrorists with kid gloves, and our citizens with rubber gloves." Rush Limbaugh)
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I have very little contact with young boys anymore just because of my life paths. Mostly see pukes in MickeyD’s and walk away disgusted. However, I was watching Swamp Loggers last week and one of the guys was a Scout Master. He brought a Troop to the swamp to see the logging operation. Good bunch of kids. Gave me some hope.
17 posted on 11/28/2010 2:56:37 PM PST by mad_as_he$$ (V for Vendetta.)
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Where do you find this?

In the middle of what is likely the most liberal county in the country (Alameda) I have a scout troop that had 5 eagles this year. We had 2 last year, and 6 the year before. Everyone of these boys earned the right to be called Eagle. The youngest turned 17 the day AFTER his board of review. Most seem to wait till the month of their 18th birthday to finish it. (Even with scouting - they procrastinate.) My son isn’t any different. He just got approval to do his Eagle project and he still has 2 merit badges to earn. He’s 18 in 6 months.

The point is that I just haven’t seen it here. Doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen - just not here.


18 posted on 11/28/2010 2:58:21 PM PST by fremont_steve
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To: rlmorel

Let me take a guess-

You served in the military?


19 posted on 11/28/2010 3:00:30 PM PST by Red6 (IMHO)
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There is only one thing better in Scouting that being an Eagle Scout. That is being Assistant Scoutmaster, Troop 152, New River District, Blue Ridge Mountain Council, BSA.


20 posted on 11/28/2010 3:04:25 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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