Hello Mike,

 >> Besides the "funny" leader there tended to be a lot of bullies who needed
 >> taking down a peg (or two). My folks sent me to the local BSA summer camp
 >> a Lake Springfield, Camp Illiniwek, where we slept in big, more-or-less
 >> permanent tipi deals. That summer was in the middle of a drought and the
 >> lake was reduced to a small strean a 12 year old could step across easily.

 MP> Our troop seemed to be bully free, which was good.  The tents at our camp
 MP> were old army surplus with (likely) surplus cots and pallets for floors.

The BSA got rid of its misogynetic past by doing away with its name
for good this past Tuesday, by formally changing its name to Scouting
America and putting the final dagger into the blatant discrimination
practices that have plagued the organization for over a century.

 >> As it happened across the part of the lake where our boy's camp was there
 >> were Camp Widgiwagen (Girl Scouts) and Camp Star of the Sea (Baptist
 >> Church).

 MP> Unfortunately, our camp was in the middle of nowhere with no "girl" camps
 MP> around anywhere.  I wasn't that interested in them yet anyway.  About the
 MP> time I got very interested in girls was when I lost interest in
 MP> participating in Boy Scouts.  ;)

All girls and boys regardless of sexual orientation are welcome to
participate in Scouting America, as the misogynetic views of the past
have been ditched forever.

"In the next 100 years, we want any youth in America to feel very,
very welcome to come into our programs."
~ Roger Krone, President of Scouting America

Girls, boys, gays, lesbians, trans ... welcome to the club.

For Life,
Lee

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