The Boy Scouts of America was founded over a hundred years ago to serve the young men of the United States of America and give them the same oppurtunities that Boy Scouts all over the world were receiving. Modeled after Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys, the Boy Scouts Handbook of the Boy Scouts of America gave the original american Boy Scouts a taste of adventure, excitement, and values for them to use for the rest of their life, and is still good reading for the modern age. (Kangaroo692)
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Thanks! My husband's an Eagle (while I, a mere brownie-scout dropout), and part of our wedding vows were the Scout Law (minus a few, which we agreed upon) -- and our officiant asked them to me a few at a time, so I could respond smoothly, then threw to him the entire list (minus those few, which threw him off, which made him look super confused).
I like how the Chivalry section expands on those virtues and gives context, so thanks again!
AprilWalters Not sure what I am doing with my life right now Sorry for flaking out for 2016-2017.
Hi Kangaroo,
A few days? You only posted it on Friday, right? That's not long!
I would be happy to be your MC - but don't be surprised to sometimes have to wait 2 or 3 days - LV is something I love to do in my spare time, but my day job does put a limit on my spare time
I'll set the project up, and make a MW. Have you BC-ed before?
OK - all set up I think.
Let me know if you have any questions or if you run into problems.
Oh, and by the way: I think I'm probably in a different time zone from you - I'm in the Netherlands - so that may delay my answers, and on weekdays I don't have time to look at the forums before I get home from work, so I hope you will be patient with me.
Have fun! I suggest we leave the project in the Launch pad at least until you have completed the MW. Don't worry about a DPL yet - I'm sure someone will come along as soon as there's something to PL.
To answer your question, I am currently BC'ing two group projects right now. The reason I thought it was a little bit long is because with my others I had an MC within the next day. Well, I guess I've just been impatient lately.
Thank you for MC'ing. I'll go get the MW filled in. Thanks!!!
Last edited by Kangaroo692 on April 26th, 2015, 3:34 pm, edited 1 time in total.
That looks fine!
I've changed the sections to 49 (it happened because the software adds 1 section if you answer the question: "will there be an introduction section?" with yes).
AprilWalters has asked via PM to reserve Woodcraft, part 2 and Woodcraft, part 5 for her husband, who is currently in the process of signing up on the LibriVox forums.
Good thing that you post in the thread, Kangaroo. It is always better to do the administrative things out here in the forum thread, and not by PM. That prevents confusion, especially when a project runs for a long time. I hope no one feels too shy to just post out here!
I only did by PM because the Magic Window wasn't live yet, and we had been discussing the project in PM since I suggested in in the Book Suggestions thread. Sorry.
AprilWalters Not sure what I am doing with my life right now Sorry for flaking out for 2016-2017.
