And they have what to do with the BSA one hundred year anniversary???
Every Thing. The BSA was in a way the original prototype for the other groups for children that would need skills later in life that would help them survive.
Remember Mr. Horse, the time in history that this was founded. 1910 a time of great migration to this country. Our new citizens faced some very daunting lives, --No unions, both parents had to work --no labor laws against child labor. Tremendous discrimination against them in any school that would except them that is.
In fighting of the ethnic groups, Why the Irish in New York and Boston had to bully their way into the Police and Fire Departments and after a few short years it would be very difficult to find a Jew, Italian, or black anywhere in either department.
What about the kids of the immigrants, little education, parents seldom anywhere but at work. In came the BSA to save the lives of Millions of boys with training, education, the one glow of hope for all boys at that time.
For the girls who had to for go school to either baby sit their younger siblings while their mothers worked in the factory's 15+ hours a day, they were taught to cook, sew, plant a garden and learn survival skills also.
Most important was that in the BSA and GSA and the Groups to follow them the kids had FUN. They looked forward to learning new skills and very proud of their badges that told the world what they had accomplished in their short lives.
All this was to help when war came as the Boys who had worn uniforms got use to military much faster then those that had never worn one, collected ribbons for achievements. These Young kids all ready knew how to work as a unit for the good of all.
For some person that is President to ignore history and the great achievements of the BSA on a century mark of their founding here in America for any reason but a national emergency is really pitiful.
I hate to say it but had half of California fallen into the Pacific, Obama would have been on a plane to Chicago to congratulate the 2 year anniversary of the Obama Youth Movement.
Yes, I be pissed off.
