[philmont] News fromSigne

        Signe,
   
  I did not bother asking you if you minded my passing on your email address to really dedicated Philmont people. You have a lot on your mind and I knew the answer already. Many had personal contact with your daughter at Philmont and knew you through Sarah. When they attended Philmont when she was there it made their job as advisors a lot easier.
   
  I knew that in times like these, friends are what we need to get us through the day. I hope you don't mind the transgression and can be comforted by the knowledge of friends caring about friends.
   
  The man on the Philmont list who helped me locaate your new email address had nothing but praise for you and your husband. He told me that your husband went out of his way to help his son in a Scouting endeavor.
   
  I still think of you as the Smart Wool scok lady because y9ou introduced many of us to that superior produts over five years ago. I still wear them. They are the best.
   
  This is what it's all about. The values in Scouting that we were taught by the old timers and lived by and now pass along to a new generation.
   
  I was very sincere in ever word I wrote to you. My brother enlisted in the U S Navy just before I enlisted in the U S Army and a few years later my youngest brother enlisted in the U S COast Guard.
   
  When Jerry left for duty in the Navy I saw how it affected my parents. My dad wrote to him and then me and my youngest brotehr every day. Just yesterday while going thorugh some of my dad's belongings, I found the box of notebook after notebook after notebook of the letters we sent home to him. He cherished every word we wrote. It is still interesting reading seeing our perspective on the then unpopular situation we were involved in..
   
  I just wish I could have saved the ones he sent me adn my two brothers, but storage space in the military is not very big. Footlockers are small.
   
  I did save one. I had been really busy adn long hours workiong in an emergency room left me exhausted at the end of the day. I got a letter from my dad. INside it ws a stamped and addressed letter to my mom and inside the envelope was a piece of paper and a sharpened pencil and on the piece of paper it started with "Dear Mom," and at the bottom it said "Your loving son, John". I got the message.
   
  I sat right down and wrote her a letter. I did not use the one he sent me, but saved it. It's priceless and says a loud message. I still have it.
   
  My mother is still living and at 93 I have to take care of all of her business and dad's influence still is there. I can say without reservation that everytime I have ever gone anywhere, I have sent her at least a postcard.
   
  Dad's daily routine was go to the post office, get the mail, go to his office, write each of his three sons, go to the post office, mail the three letters, go to his business and work 10-12 hours, go home, eat, sleep, repeat.
   
  He did this every day any of us were deployed and most days when we served stateside.
   
  I could not have asked for better support from family. We did not have it from the citizenry as a whole and that is a black eye on that generation or two.
   
  Thank goodness today it is different. It makes serving a little easier knowing Pholks back home are behind you.
   
  Please keep us posted on his progress.
   
  Your in Scouting and sincerely,
   
  John LeBlanc
   
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  Thank you. What a surprise to to start receiving notes from Philmont friends from the past. They tell me you had a hand in that.
   
  Signe
      

       
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Received on Sat Aug 25 11:04:49 2007