@ 27.055 MHz: Ad Astra; What I Brought Away From Almost Two Years In The Boy Scouts [XLIX]

"Some boys learn how to bring these emissions on,"

the Boy Scout Handbook told me (page near the end):

this seemed more important than, say, a five mile

hike or how to tie a real sheep shank.  Then, Sweet

Tommy showed me . . . yes!


J-Called

Author's Notes/Comments: 

I do not know which edition of the Handbook was in use in the summer of 1969, when I joined.


I was amazed how the people who seemed so glad, in Cub Scouts, that I chose to join their Scouting Troop, acted like they hardly knew me once I joined.  My parents rewarded my seventh grade GPA of 3.5 with permission to cancel my membership in the Scouts.  I never told them that I had been subjected to corporal abuse because I could not run fast enough.

 

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