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I'm sure everyone in Scouting recalls Norman Rockwell's "The Scoutmaster" cover on Boys' Life Feb. 1956



In an inadequate attempt to pay back the men that invested in me as a Scout (Eagle 1967), I started volunteering with Troop 84 in Kansas City in 95' (my old troop had disbanded.) We had a yearly camp out near a range to introduce the Scouts to shotguns - and almost none had previously shot. I had a Ruger 28g upon which I installed an adjustable comb and LOP butt, and I think they all came away smiling.
I also started volunteering at the Health Lodge a Bartle Scout Reservation on Truman Lake, then Camp Geronimo near Pine here in AZ starting in 2006. When full, Bartle had about 1,700 Scouts, Adult Leaders and Staff, and we had some wild medical emergencies.

A boy's future was once built on a foundation of family (< than 25% of households in the U.S. today have both a mother and a father), school (public schools now DEI indoctrination camps), church (regular house of worship attendance in the U.S. is now about 30%) and Scouting (In 1972, about 31% of the 19 million boys aged 10 - 19 were in Scouting; in 1998, about 25 percent.) That foundation has been purposefully destroyed, and boys have never been as lost, confused, despondent, angry, and without purpose; which is reflected by the marked increase in suicide and suicide attempts in grade and middle schools.

This is a letter I sent when I stopped volunteering in 2013
Like tens of thousands of men and boys, I’m mourning the death of one of the few remaining institutions that have existed to develop character, honor, integrity, and courage in young men. The only father many boys know today is their mother’s current live-in, Protestant churches have replaced Biblical truth with ‘feel good’ psychology, and the same activists that are destroying Scouting, and who will not be satisfied until adult leadership is open to any variant of LGBTQIA, now control the public education of our children. The military and prison system cannot correct the expected results.
I would not be the man that I am were it not for Scouting. My small service to Scouting has been pay-back to the men that enabled me to be a scout, modeled what I hoped to become, and expressed in action and words their care for me. I am pessimistic that anything can replace what Scouting once was. My heart is heavy with this loss, which will have enormous consequences for this country.
Pray for our boys. Pray for America. Satan won a big one.

But we, as men, can do what we can to get a boy outside, with a gun in his hands.
"On My Honor" still matters, but must be taught and modeled by men.