Re: [Philmont]: Scout Skills are Important!

Actually both messages. Mine prompted Tom's post after the original post.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Swiggum <peter.swiggum@sbcglobal.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list philmont <philmont@troop47.com>
Sent: Sat Oct 08 10:04:06 2005
Subject: Re: [Philmont]: Scout Skills are Important!

Tom,
I try to read all the posts on this list server, but I must have missed one.
Could you (or someone) repost the message that prompted this response? I'd
like to read it. Thanks.
 
Pete Swiggum
Troop 1173
Green Bay, WI

----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Lindtveit
To: Multiple recipients of list philmont
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 2:25 PM
Subject: RE: [Philmont]: Scout Skills are Important!

> Jacob was having second thoughts.
Jacob wasn't having second thoughts. Jacob is a jerk who will probably never
learn. He will be the grown man standing in front of his house in 2 feet of
water complaining that the government is not moving fast enough or doing
enough to help him. He will be the one who decides that he will sit it out
because "they've told us to evacuate before and it never came to anything".
He will be the one who complains that the Fire department or Rescue squad
doesn't respond quick enough when he calls them. He is a "taker", not a
"giver". I know this because I see Jacob almost every week. He is the one
who complains about us leaving a Fire Truck or an Ambulance blocking his
driveway while we try to help his neighbor (but he's in a hurry to go out
and buy his lottery tickets before the drawing). Yes, Jacob is being taught
values by his family that will carry him thorough the rest of his life.
 Thank God for Scouting, and thank you for reminding me why I put up with
all the nonsense that is a necessary part of being a Scoutmaster. I was just
going through a 'crisis of faith', but thanks to your note, I am better now.
I had almost forgotten that I am in this for 'My Boys', and NOTHING else
matters.
Yours In Scouting,
Tom

Tom Lindtveit
Scoutmaster, Troop 66
Associate Advisor for Program, Half Moon Lodge #28
Wulaptonaelchukquonk (One who advocates our cause)
RVW Council Training Staff
I used to be a Beaver.... NE-III-25
Home: n2sa@bestweb.net
Work: Tom@chocolate cheers.com

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