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Hey Matt!! You wrote and asked me: “My name is Matthew Wilson a proud eagle scout. While at a local swap meet I found a BSA jacket and purchased it. The tag reads Boy Scouts Of America Official Jacket and has the number 553 on it. Size 40. It feels like all […]
Please first allow me some words about making speeches. I have been doing so for quite some time — since 13; and “will speak for food, patch or mug” (later for $100) since I turned 17. Let me start out by saying that at every location I provide a speech — an after dinner speech; […]
Hi Bill!! You provided me with a GREAT question today….thank you for asking me: “If I was a Boy Scout am I “always” a Boy Scout” (if I wasn’t expelled or anything — never happened)…or just during the time I was in my troop. I am now 72, but recall still with […]
(Copied from the SCOUTING magazine daily blog at blog.scoutingmagazine.org) I am the assistant Scoutmaster and advancement chairman for my Scout troop. I have worked with lots of boys in my troop and am proud of the fact that we have more than the national average of boys who made it to Eagle. So many […]
(From my posting on the BSA’s SCOUTING magazine blog): Wallace wrote in part: “Ed… Something must have happened or why would the BSA adopt the policy…” Yeah. The United States had a “growth spurt” and with it some additional maturity. A scant 15 years ago, we were laughing at NBC’s “Will […]
Hey Ted: That’s exactly what I was saying this morning to someone…our youth today simply *do not care*. Gayness doesn’t come up in a typical youth’s discussion with another…and if it does, it is a simple “that’s cool” or “do your own thing, man…” and discussion moves on something else youth-like. It is we adults […]
Boy Scouts of America Monday, Jan. 28, 2013 “For more than 100 years, Scouting’s focus has been on working together to deliver the nation’s foremost youth program of character development and values-based leadership training. Scouting has always been in an ongoing dialogue with the Scouting family to determine what is in the best interest […]
Four Pound Binder Contents.pdf Download this file Hi David!! I think you’re talking about the items in my “four pound binder”. I haven’t updated the binder in quite some time (about three years now) but I need to do so. Some of the publications no longer exist; while others are found only in electronic […]
So WHAT or WHO are we hiding the fact that we’re Scouters from? Tell me!! Why the secrecy? What are we trying to hide from the public?? Why must we couch our words about what we do in Scouting behind “I’m doing this because my child’s in it” and “I’m just doing it this […]
Lou (David) Salzer wrote and asked me: “Mr. Walton, I read the comments about the BSA retiring the “Heroism Award” on the scouting magazine blog. I am curious about your thoughts on this. I am looking at it from a military valor standpoint. You have the Medal of Honor, the Distinguished Service Cross, Silver […]
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