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I was a scout, the best thing that happened to me back then.
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.
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.
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.
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
My father, WWII veteran and COL, USA (ret.), was a Scoutmaster, and my mother was a Cub Scout Den Mother. All three brothers in Scouting, and we all went to Service academies.
One of my regrets is not making Eagle Scout; my middle brother did, and after military service eventually became a multimillionaire entrepreneur and retired at 50. Large percentage of astronauts and other successful people attained Eagle rank.
My hero Roy Rogers also had some good rules by which boys and girls should live.
Roy Rogers Riders Club Rules
1. Be neat and clean.
2. Be courteous and polite.
3. Always obey your parents.
4. Protect the weak and help them.
5. Be brave but never take chances
6. Study hard and learn all you can.
7. Be kind to animals and take care of them.
8. Eat all your food and never waste any.
9. Love God and go to Sunday school regularly.
10. Always respect our flag and our country.
Once DADT falls, the left will focus like a laser beam on scouting.
Gotta brag. Two sons, two Eagles. One a midnight Eagle. I have had the honor of serving as a Committee Member, Chair, and Scout Master. By no means am I bragging about myself. As I said, my privilege.
Trail the Eagle,
Trail the Eagle,
Climbing all the time.
First the Star and then the Life,
Will on your bosom shine.
KEEP CLIMBING!
Blaze the trail and we will follow,
Hark the Eagles’ call;
On, brothers, on Until we’re Eagles all.
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Bravo for the Boy Scouts! And gratitude for all who become Scout Masters or in any way support and help the BSA. Evidence of why the BSA need to keep homosexuals out of the organization, and why the leftists hate the Boy Scouts.
My husband was a Scout master for 7 years. Scouting trained our sons to be men, while the fellowship and friendship Hubby continues to share with the dads made a better man of him as well.
God Bless America, and the wonderful organizations like the Boy Scouts that helped make us great.
When I was hiring young professionals, the resumes of those who listed “Eagle Scout” in their accomplishments went on the top of the pile. I seldom got down to the others...
Scouting has giving us such great leaders as these Eagle Scouts: Marion Barry, James Brady, Stephen Breyer, Michael Dukakis, Tom Foley, Dick Gephardt, L. Ron Hubbard, Michael Moore, John Murtha, Rev Fred Phelps.
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That is my only charity.