Late to the party, here none the less! Much like Lloyd3 I was not a Boy Scout. Too far for me to go to attend meetings etc. A whopping five miles! I did have a subscription to Boy's Life compliments of my Uncle Fred, also a script for Nat Geo, whoo ee! Paid to have an Uncle working for IBM in the 60's/70's!
I truly enjoyed both mags. Put some ideas in me to go in different direction than farming. Not that farming is a bad thing!
Didn't hurt that my Grand Dad could be easily distracted into going fishing, hunting, building something totally interesting and utterly useless at the same time and so on.
Both of our Sons were in Scouts, I was an ASM along with a good friend the was the SM. Enjoyed the time with my Sons and their comrades. They were done as soon as they had there DL's, as was I.
It's a shame that the organization has been altered from its intent.
