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Siblings Discover Dad's Scout Abuse, Remember Own
ABC ^ | 2/17/13 | NIGEL DUARA

Posted on 02/17/2013 12:28:47 PM PST by OKRA2012

On opposite sides of the world, the brother and sister sat transfixed before their computers, reading a stranger's account of long-ago secrets and deeply buried sins.

The memo was just four pages long, about an incident in 1963 at a Boy Scout camp in New Jersey. A Scout executive had gotten drunk during an overnight outing, then was discovered gambling with a group of boys. But there was more.

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21 posted on 02/17/2013 3:03:10 PM PST by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: x1stcav

Spot on. Our Scout leader served on Tarawa and Iwo, and he made men of us, in spite of our self. He kept in touch with me when I was in the Corps.


22 posted on 02/17/2013 4:47:34 PM PST by gunner03
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To: gunner03

Different era my friend. One that I miss sorely.

Scouting, athletics, hell, even school was more more than just attending and getting grades. It was to prepare us for manhood.

Too bad education became feminized.


23 posted on 02/17/2013 5:29:21 PM PST by x1stcav (Man up! We're all going to have to become Samuel Whittemores.)
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To: Slump Tester

I understand Robinson Curuso was caught trying to bugger a shipmate and he was not shipwrecked but maroned with just enough to survive. that could be why you didn’t hear of many cases


24 posted on 02/17/2013 6:10:07 PM PST by shoff (Vote Democratic it beats thinking!)
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To: OKRA2012
As this article shows the BSA has already been through it's own version of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell". Didn't work out so well.

If they cave the organization is finished.

25 posted on 02/17/2013 6:29:44 PM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux)
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To: Gay State Conservative
American Maoists demand fewer perverts in the Catholic Church and more in the Boy Scouts.These Maoists never seem to be satisfied with the pervert ratios.

They go hammer and tong at the Catholic Church, because some Bishops protected homosexual, abusive priests, yet they're willing to set the same situations up in the Boy Scouts. Ironic, isn't it?

26 posted on 02/17/2013 7:17:14 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: OKRA2012

I refuse to believe that there is such a thing as a gay cub scout. I think prior to the age of puberty, it is few and far between that a boy, or girl, is actually homosexual. Even Fraud spoke of a latency period and for him all things where sex.

As for the Scouts, they, AND the Catholic Church, did what was expected at the time. Homosexuality and Pedophilia where considered mental disorders. They are in actuality by definition deviant sexual disorders. They sent the man to a mental institution AND kicked him out of the organization. What else was expected? I suppose they should have called the police, but at the time, that was the norm FOR ALMOST ALL ORGANIZATIONS.

Now the norm is touchy feely bull shit about how a person can’t help it, they where born that way. Well, Mr. Salem, our scout master, was a Marine veteran of Korea and along with my father and the other men with sons in the troop, would have corrected the attitude of anyone that would have sexually abused any child.

As for physical abuse, the camping in tents at 20Deg and having to eat our own cooking was enough physical abuse for anyone.


27 posted on 02/17/2013 9:41:25 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Jim from C-Town

As for physical abuse, the camping in tents at 20Deg and having to eat our own cooking was enough physical abuse for anyone.


Amen. Boys don’t need to be homosexualy harassed and raped to boot.

Homo activists want to re-establish their sex ring in the Scouts. If they give in to the homos, parents need to get their boys out of the Scouts. Scout leader have way too much authority, power and opportunity...


28 posted on 02/17/2013 10:12:07 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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