Great Positive International Piece

[skeptic]

http://www.leprogres.fr/france-monde/2011/04/17/3-000-boyscouts-americains-soutiennent-l-inscription-d-omaha-beach-a-l-unesco

 

Here is a general translation using Google.

 

Some 3000 U.S. Boy Scouts have formed yesterday in humane letters the message "Normandy, Land of Liberty"in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Omaha Beach included in town, one of five landing beaches on 6 June 1944. The rally, initiated by the association "Boy Scouts of America" is intended "to support the candidacy of Lower Normandy (a) the registration of the landing beaches to World Heritage by Unesco. A dozen veterans who landed on the Normandy beaches in June 1944 (Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword Beaches) attended the gathering.

[SSScout]

THREE THOUSAND American Scouts??? How did they get to France??? Maybe they are from US military based in Europe? That is a neat display, no doubt about it.

[Adam S]

I saw an English version of the article (and of course cannot find the URL now) but it indicated they were Trans-Atlantic Council units. Makes allot of sense seeing as most of those scouts are sons of our service men & women.

 

I will post the english URL as soon as I find it.

[Crew21_Adv]

Fellow Scouters,

 

Great find skeptic!

 

http://www.scout.org/en/information_events/news/2011/3_000_american_scouts_distinguish_themselves_in_normandy

http://boyslife.org/wayback

(Search for Nov 2005 edition, pg 44-45)

 

Here are a couple of links in English. The first is about the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO project), to identify the beaches of Normandy as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (You can probably say it is more to limit and govern commercialization of a historic site.)

 

The second links is a 2005 Boys' Life Article of the BSA Transatlantic Council Normandy Camporee (pg 44-45).

 

Scouting Forever and Venture On!

Crew21 Adv