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  1. In the last district committee meeting I attended I asked if girls could attend the Cub Scout camps the summer of 2018. The individual responsible for the camp stated she asked and it was made clear that girls in Cub Scouts would start in September of 2018. The only official documents I have seen is fall of 2018 so September seems reasonable as the start.
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  2. The annual Memorial Illumination is "held the first Saturday in December because it provides a maximum amount of darkness and the battlefield leases about half the park to local farmers. The later start gives them time to clear their crops." Nearly 23,000 luminaries are placed to honor each soldier killed, wounded or missing during the Battle of Antietam on Sept. 17, 1862. "It's a tangible way to see 23,000," said Keith Snyder, chief of resource education and visitor services for the battlefield. "This was the bloodiest day in American military history. It's four times D-Day,
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  3. The truth will out. This was a willful and deliberate act of humor by @David CO
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  4. "Moderator bias"? You do know the mods do this thankless task as a good turn to Boy Scouting? There is no "Troop Method" in Boy Scouting. There are simply adults, including some at B.S.A., who either do not believe in Boy Scouting as formally defined by B.S.A. for generations, or do not know what that definition is. The latter is quite understandable given the failure of B.S.A. to coherently define the Patrol Method for decades. It is also understandable given that BSA and its councils not only tolerate adult failure to supply Boy Scouting but do not even do the simple things that m
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  5. Are you indicating a moderator bias here? Since we have no forum for Troop Method, I would have preferred that it be left where it was.
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  6. Let's please remember that the original poster came here to get ideas on HOW to solve a particular problem. Like most threads in which people do that, some of the responses raise questions about whether there is a problem in the first place. That is not against the rules, but I think some of the responses here have been unnecessarily harsh. We are supposed to be "helpful", and provide that help in a "friendly" way.
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  7. I thought it was a general moral panic in Victorian England about "kids these days" being "too soft", and yes, I guess not ready to defend the empire. Unsurprising really, you take a bunch of city boys off to war in the african veldt and they get their backsides handed to them on a plate by the rufty tufty guys who had grown up there. Apparently one of my ancestors managed to survive a couple of particularly heavy defeats, but anyway... He did very much want scouting to become an international movement for peace, so as well as being pleased we're still lighting fires and playing games in
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