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And So It Begins...Again...
A Scout Chaplain's Prayer
Great and Holy Spirit of Scouting, as I go through my day an night time travels:
Every day may my aging eyes and ears still be able to pick upon anything that needs attention.
Deign that I have the wisdom to act in ways most effective and appropriate to each situation we are challenged by.
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Reflections on 9/11 after returning from Mass
The “anniversary” of the September 11th attacks came again. I recalled all that happened from my point of view. The surreal hours in the classroom as the events unfolded, my decision to fully commit to Scouts, as my age and other factors prevented me from taking a more active role in defending the nation, and an essay written by the now departed ( Read more... ) -
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As mentioned earlier, we were saddled with an unusual theme this summer. "Bringing the City to the Country" may have been a stretch for some program areas, but Oest Nature Lodge always rises to the challenge!
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2010 Scout's Own Homily
The Theme handed down to us by BSA National was "Bringing the City to the Country". I took on that challenge in my program area (Nature) pretty well, and will detail it in a later post. What I wanted to do here is give an overview of the Service I put together, and share the homily i wrote to go along with it. Before every service I do a brief ( Read more... ) -
SIGH...
This is the actual, un-editied version of a card that was on the shelves for three years before any stink was raised about it:
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Here is a news report about the card:
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Very First Boy Scout Troop in Decatur, IL
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The above link is to a photo of the very first Scout Troop in Decatur, Illinois. Here is another view of it:
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Well, I got through to at least one student in spite of everything this year
So we are on the way home from our annual trip to the National Museum of Natural History and one of my student says, "hey Mr. ___, I think I got one of the Chaperones mad at me." This student often takes joy in pushing buttons of people who may not be as fast on the uptake as he, so I sighed and said, "OK C____, what did you do?"
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Some stuff from the trip so far
3/28
Below is the view of the shuttle to the Dulles International terminal. I keep feeling like I'm in a B5 episode. Looking around the car to see if the Centari planted a "device" when the last group exited the shuttle.
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