Is there a merit badge for resilience?

This really shouldn't be a forum to get into a debate, however i must say Tron is completely out of line! I with many other wonderful leaders run a pack of cub scouts and we do both as a pack and as individual dens many service projects each year including:
*Picking up litter at Montello school
*Creating and sending a Holiday Carols video to troops over seas
*Scouting for food
*Marching in the Memorial Day Parade and hoisting the flag that was sent to us by some of the troops who received the holiday video (which had a very low turn out by every day citizens (were you there to honor our veterans)
*Donated holiday gifts to the families at the Abused Womans advocacy project
*there is a national push to plant trees on Arbor Day 2010

So there are just a few examples and no you may not see it, however the practice of being a good citizen and doing good deeds is to do it without recognition, so yes you wont see it because we go about our good deeds silently.

Have you done your good turn daily yet?

tron, please provide one example where we "openly teach discrimination and intolerance to people unlike themselves"....I know you can't come up with any real examples other than what you "think" is happening....Your neice and godchild teaches first aid and family citizenship, for example - do you have a problem with that?

To tron, today 17 boys and 5 adult, including my sons and I spent several hours raking, sweeping and general maintenance of the YWCA building on East Avenue. Last month we and many others from other units spent two entire weekends rebuilding trails and bridges at the Shaker Village in New Gloucester. In August we spent time in Lake Placid, NY area and performed a large land conservation project without being asked, just because they felt it was the right thing to do. Next month we will celebrate the success with another Eagle Scout whose project a few months ago was the demolition and insulation of a vestry hall at the new Gloucester Congregational CHurch which included 30 scouts, 12 leaders and 20 others who are friends of Scouts. At the district Eagle recognition banquet, our Troop was recognized with 3 of the 12 Eagles this year in the entire district.

But getting back to Camp GUstin:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?filter=app_2361831622#/group.php?gid=32...

please use this link if you are on facebook and sign up as a supporter of saving Maine Scout camps, we need to show our size.

Note: I can't find any financial statements on the dysfunctional Council web page, but it's probably the usual story of a bloated staff and the Council Commissioners refusal to fire them. Close the council headquarters if they have to, but they must balance their budget now.

The Pine Tree Council has a strong history in our state but quietly hid their financial problems and chose to operate at a massive deficit. They need to immediately make major cuts in their budget and get some new leadership. Also any sale of assets should benefit their capital accounts only, not their operating budget.

You don't see them doing good works because you're not looking for that. You're looking for something about them to bitch about. They "openly teach discrimination and intolerance to people unlike themselves"???? They don't need the Boy Scouts for that. They can earn enough about intolerance by reading your posts. It really pis%es you off that you and others like you haven't been able to get that organization to change their definition of "moral straightness" to meet your needs and expectations. Doesn't it, dumbass?
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Personally I think this is just a ploy by the Scouts to increase their fundraising this year. Watch how all the publicity suddenly ignites contributions from the public and lo and behold Camp Gustin is saved. Give me a break. There was a time when Scouting taught, among other things, God, Country, family and basic human decency. Now you rarely see a scout doing "good deed" for the community or the people. And they now openly teach discrimination and intolerance to people unlike themselves. They still have their name, which elicits fond memories, but as the public comes to fully realize what they've become, they will have more troubles in the future.