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Trapper Rob:
My son's 11 and he's working on the Heritage Merit badge. For some of the things he has to fill out is what other scouts liked about being in and doing in scouts. If there's any Eagle Scouts he also needs to know what was all the different things that they liked about and doing as they were in scouts.

sleek:
Talk to Lebhuntfish. He is an eagle scout.

Eric Krewson:
Not an eagle scout but I can tell you what I liked about the scouts, this is circa 1950s.

We camped year round in the Smokey mountains, even got caught out in a couple of blizzards and weathered these conditions just fine. These conditions taught us about working together and looking out for the weaker members.

We took grueling hikes in the mountains, this instilled a no quit mentality in me that lasted me all my life.

Boy scout camp in the summers was wonderful, swimming, canoeing, shooting bows and rifles and tons of classes on bushcraft.

I didn't have much of a father figure growing up,  I idolized my scoutmaster, a combat vet from WW2 and like a mother hen in his guidance for all us rowdy boys and keeping us on the straight and narrow.

The only dark spot was when I was studying for the God and Country award under the tutelage of a crusty old minister from New England. During the course of the instruction he told us if we kissed a girl our face would rot off, he actually said this. Well, at 12 years old I had already kissed a girl and my face was still intact so I knew he was lying. I walked away from his class and never went back.

Trapper Rob:
Thanks sleek and Eric that will help him out. If anyone else has anything on there scouting adventure will help also he needs at least 2 eagle scouts and 5 other scouts.
Eric that will get him off to a good start.

Eric Krewson:
This was a different time, we were tough little urchins from the hills of East Tennessee, even when we were trapped by a blizzard out in the wilderness for a week, none of our parents gave it a second thought or called in the rescue squad, they knew we could handle it. There were NO helicopter parents back then that orchestrated their kids every move.

After about week someone drove a tractor through the snow pulling a huge sled to "rescue" us, they found us warm, well fed and dry, we had enough firewood to last a month, it was a grand adventure. We had one kid with the flue who they took back home, they left the rest of to continue our adventure.

The Boy Scout Oath was our mantra, no girls in the scouts, no political correctness, no revisionist history, no political indoctrination. All that was expected of us was to be boys headed in the direction of being honest responsible men who loved our country, something that we all achieved.

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