05/04/2024 Blog «The Legel Report»

This from my Inbox immediately caused me to shake my head.
NO. The student protests aren’t the issue blockhead.
It’s all about the genocide!

MjL 04 May 2024, 3:26 a.m.

It wasn’t just faith and God that disturbed me.
I can distinctly remember at that time calling
someone a “Square” was an insult.

Some of the guys I ran with were pretty rough.
In my mind’s eye I can see them making the square and ridiculing people they thought were Pansies or Goody Two-shoes. We smoked cigarettes, told dirty jokes, used profanity, and stayed out after curfew. Calling myself Square worried me about what those guys would say or think of me.

I decided I would be sure I didn’t do anything at Scouts to get me into trouble and to avoid the issue with the other guys. And I gravitated away from them the more time I spent with the Scouts.

Eventually I realized that in #Scouting I could openly use an axe and wear a knife on my belt. I was doing things those guys would envy and I didn’t have to sneak around to do it.

Oddly enough I later saw some of those guys at Scout meetings and we would confer with each other about the situation. They had chosen the same course of action and we would sometimes get up to mischief but agreed never at a Scout function.

MjL 04 May 2024, 4:04 a.m.

Michael,

Scouts provided a “license to carry”

This was my first “merit badge”. Don’t remember how I came to earn it.

You didn’t mention we also got to play with fire!

Jeff

#Scouting

Jeff Teel 04 May 2024, 8:59 p.m.

#Scouting
I’d logged off the computer before you posted this last night Jeff.

Love the merit badge! (I don’t have that one

)

And I didn’t even know there was such a thing as a Firem’n Chit.

MjL 05 May 2024, 3:36 a.m.

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