Re: Mauled By a Grizzly...was Re: Abusive parents

On Sat, 6 Jul 1996, Michael F. Bowman wrote:

> It takes courage to face down a "grizzly" and your example no doubt
> served to show the Scouts a bit of the meaning of "Brave" in the Scout
> Law. Aside from learning that the other fellow was a poor example of a
> leader, I'm sure that they learned they could meet similar challenges
> without resorting to violence - a very valuable lesson indeed. True, it
> would have been better not to have had such a bully as a leader,
> sometimes what seems to be a bad situation can turn out to be a valuable
> lesson.

Michael,

Thanks. Public opinion of the encounter at camp was about 50/50. About
half the gossip around camp was that I was a coward for not getting in a
fight. Of course, much of this was because that is what the grizzly bear
went around saying. And, people being people, there was the
disappointment that there wasn't a fight. Still, I think I won, public
opinion or not.

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Rex Goode
rexg@coil.com http://www.coil.com/~rexg/index.htm

I used to be a buffalo...

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