Re: Safe Haven crap

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From: Bob Morehead <rmorehead@NLS.NET>
Date: Monday, August 10, 1998 02:47 PM


>Tim Hewitt wrote:
>>" I am not here ... to act as a distraction to individuals who have to
>be medicated to " fit in " with society. "

And Bob responded, in part:

>You know, I was sort of with Tim up until he inscribed the above
>atrocity. Up to that point, he was making some sense. It's a forgone
>conclusion that there will be those boys who refuse to be helped. We
>have our limits in what we can do. When all else has failed, we must be
>ready to remove a Scout who presents an undue disruption or danger to
>his troopmates.

I agree with Bob, Made a lot of sense until this point. If I subscribed to
the "medicated to fit in" argument presented, I would have never been able
to get my Troop restarted after a little over a year being dropped. Of the
12 Scouts that chartered in July 1993, 8 were on some form of medication;
most was Ritalin(sp?) some were respiratory.

>Ya know, I was still on Ritalin when I joined cubs and
>take Claritin, Cardizem CD and Prilosec now. I guess I'm just not good
>enough for Scouts, since I have to be medicated to fit in with society.


I wasn't on medication as a child, but I wasn't "perfect"(!) then neither
anyway ;-). I found other ways to drive people - uh, "crazy".

But, now I am on several meds. Thanks to 20 years in the Army, jumping out
of airplanes for over 18 years, two operations for bone problems, and the
Persian Gulf War, I too, must take medication to "fit" (? right word?) and
continue to participate. If not, I would be in constant (tears producing)
pain, unable to walk very far, have skin rashes in several places, and a
nose that just will not cooperate.

Of course, none of that matters. We are here for the SCOUTS - safe haven
and all, and we probably will have to use OUR BRAINS (as no one else wants
to use 'em for us) to ensure the gift of Scouting is available to all who
come.

>I know I'm a relative newcomer to the list and maybe I'm just naive, but
>I would never have dreamed in a million years that such absolute crap
>could come from the keyboard of someone on this list. God save us all!

And I consider myself an old-timer on this list, and I agree with Bob from
what I see from time to time.

And I'm sure He will eventually save us all who want to be.

HAND!

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