[philmont] Trail Peak protocol

Is there not a plaque posted on trail peak honoring those involved in this flight? I recall it being a metal engraved plate, subtle, without being overbearing. A fitting memorial in the wilderness for those who climb the peak, without being a tourist destination? Are we requesting more of a memorial be built? More prominent, less subtle?
 
-mike-
'00, '06

Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:33:02 -0800From: philmontjohn@yahoo.comSubject: [philmont] Trail Peak protocolTo: philmont@troop47.com
The ranch committee refused to let a memorial be built on trail peak to the airmen who died there. Even though I understand their point as to preserving it as a wilderness setting, I firmly disagree with their decision.
 
I was first introduced to trail peak and the wreckeage as an impressionable 14 year old in 1959. Since that time I have devoured anything I could attain about B-24's in general and that Liberator in particular.
 
I highly recommend that any crew going to Philmont with a chance to hike trail peak read beforehand "Last Flight Of The Liberator".
 
The connection to Scouting is phenominal and personally I think it is a disgrace that a memorial to the crew is simply not there. This would put it into the proper perspective.
 
Maybe it can still get done. After all it took a full twenty years for the memorial above the U S S Arrizona to be built and fifty years for a WWII memorial to be built.
 
As to taking away from the wilderness experience, baloney!. The memorial atop Guadalupe Peak, the highest mountain in Texas honoring pioneer aviators did not detract one bit from my daughter and I climbing it.
 
I'm not going to mention the Scouters name who championed the peeing deal on trail peak because I've already told him to his face what I thought of his idea, but it is simply crude and has no place in Scouting.
 
As a U S Army combat medic veteran from 1967-69, I honor and value all sacrifices made by Americans finest, it's soldiers, sailors and marines.
 
Thanks to those who cared enough to bring this up again.
 
John LeBlanc
 
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Far from trying to change your mind, Scott, I wholeheartedly agree. With 2 nephews currently in harms way (including one in Naval Air) I find this news most disgusting.
When my crew visited that site in '06, we spent several minutes viewing the wreckage, and my co-advisor (a Coast Guard veteren) pointed out to our guys that the flyers that died there weren't a whole lot older than they were, bearing in mind that in 1942 the average age of a soldier was 20-22. That got their attention. We had a very quiet hike down the trail to Beaubien after that.
Perhaps this is something that should be mentioned at the Advisors meeting on Day 1.
 
Craig Winney
GSLAC

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