[philmont] Please Stop

As usual I learn a lot from replies to my posts.

I still implore everyone associated with this list to "Please Stop". Abraham Lincoln said, "The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. " But I don't think Mr Lincoln would have appreciated boys peeing on that hallowed ground.

Dr. Bob and Mike Sharratt (thanks Sharon) bring up great points. It's not malicious and how I handle it must benefit the boys. I would never dress down a Scout, or his advisors, if I happened upon them participating in the ill-conceived tradition on Trail Peak. But, I can tell the story of the crash the night before my crew's ascent, or even at the staff campfires (if they'll let me) at Beaubien and others in the area. Then ask that they take a moment to reflect on that sacrifice when they reach the crash site.

I don't think any Scout/Scouter would make a tradition of peeing on the Tomb of the Unknowns or the battlefields of Gettysburg, because they know about the sacrifices represented by those places. So lets start a new tradition of educating trekkers before they climb Trail Peak about the sacrifice of the men who died there.

Scott Calkins
Baton Rouge, LA

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Received on Tue Feb 12 10:59:13 2008