BSA Natl Jamboree

[Bruce Day]

The Jambo ends today and everybody leaves tomorrow. Its been an interesting exp-erience, from helping physically and emotionally damaged youth to the majority who are just boys even though they may be 6ft 5, weigh 250 lbs of muscle and look like college football players....they are kids having fun and maybe we have future national leaders here.. The West Point booth was packed with interested boys.

So these are kids like kids have always been and we emphasize the Scout law...trustworthy , loyal,l helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave clean and reverent . So a few of us leaders went out to dinner about 12 days ago while we were setting up and this rode hard 30ish waitress with one arm covered with tatoos starts asking about Boy Scouts because she says she has several boys so we tell her and then she says she wishes she had gone with a Boy Scout alum when she was in her teens.... she might not have a bunch of kids and trying to kick a drug and alcohol problem.

I'll post photos when I can...somehow can't do it tonight , internet issues, etc.

Not all Scouts became POTUS as did Gerald R. Ford- but he certainly lived up to the code of conduct Lord Baden-Powell set out back in 1910. I often wonder if he were with us today how he would see a greatly changed world indeed. 31 July 1910-- No Titanic tragedy, no 1914 shooting of some Duke in Sarajevo that led to WW1. It was indeed a man's world back then, and the Scout Oath reflected the steps a lad should follow into manhood- and not too far from the Ten Commandments- Now prayer in schools, the wording of "Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag- I can only wonder what his reaction would be.

I also hope that the "rode hard and put up wet" waitress with the two boys (most likely without a father in the picture) will find sponsors that will get them into Scouting and on the right path for life-