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I have a similar situation, but am in an even worse position to help. It's very frustrating. The Scout turns 18 in mid-June. I talked to him for about 20 minutes at a meeting in early March. He still has to do Personal Management and Personal Fitness. He had time, but seemed disheartened. I told him that it will be a difficult journey, but well worth the sense of accomplishment in the end. He kept saying that there are other things to put on a college application. I tried to discourage that point of view, but for some reason, these kids are fixated on that. The other adults have been trying to help as best they can. I didn't get much of an update this past weekend on our camp out. It's rough caring for these kids. I try not to fall back on my veterinarian survival mantra of "you can't care more than the client" because they are kids. -
That last bit might be a way, if it is true. His/her last child left for college 3 years ago.
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The last few years of our scout camp operation, the camp is now gone, they had developed a flag retirement as part of the campfire program. When it came time for Taps, they had a real bugler, though his back up was a trumpet or coronet; but the interesting part was the response from afar on a trombone, repeating the notes like an echo. It always moved me. We lost our troop bugler to age out, and right now none of the few scouts care to learn. But our official bugle is almost a hundred years old, and we also have number of others that are newer. The hardest thing as I understand with the bugle is that most of the work is done with the mouth, though it appears there is a small slide of some sort on the instrument. We also have locally the what seems now requisite playing of taps with the bagpipes. -
Here's one of my "kickers"... The regulation Bugle has about five feet of brass tubing..... Take your old garden hose, cut off five feet of hose, smooth one end with some fine sandpaper, jam a kitchen funnel of appropriate size in the other end and PLAY it. -
By RememberSchiff · Posted
April 1, 2025: IMO, this opens the door to the use of unsafe kazoo's.
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