Baloo's bugle volume 22, Number 2 Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future

Great Spirit, we give you thanks for the everyday people

who do heroic things-
the firefighters who answer the call for help,
the police officers who work at keeping our cities safe,
the military personnel who keep our country safe, and
the Cub Scouts who unselfishly give service to others.

May we recognize all these everyday heroes and give them our thanks. AMEN

Thank You for Scouting and for the inspiration You gave our founders. Watch over our meeting and help us to keep Scouting alive forever. Amen.

The First Salute

Scouter Jim, Bountiful UT

If you can't get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, how are you going to get them to die for their country? General George S. Patton

A co-worker of mine had a son graduate from the University and the ROTC program. He had two brothers in the military. One, a commissioned officer was able to swear his brother in as a new officer. The other, a Master Sergeant was the first soldier to give the new officer a salute. It was considered a great honor that the first salute he would receive as a Commissioned Officer was from his brother. I know from the culture of the family that the young man was once a Boy Scout and possibly an Eagle Scout. Most likely he was a Cub Scout before that.

That salute was not his first. He had given many salutes in his training no doubt. As a Boy Scout he would have given Salutes during flag ceremonies. But his first salute was no doubt as a Cub Scout. In a blue shirt with his arm proudly held up and two fingers placed to his forehead or against a Blue and Gold hat . This young officer’s first salute as an American in uniform was probably as a Cub Scout proudly wearing a blue shirt.

As leaders, it is well that we remember that our young Cub Scouts giving their first salutes in uniform as Americans with two fingers, will advance in Scouting and start giving three finger salutes as Americans. Some will go on to serve their county and start to give four finger salutes, but their first salutes in uniform will always be as Cub Scouts with two finger against the hat. The Character Connection for November is Respect. There may be no better way to teach respect for the county, the flag, and those who serve in uniform that to teach the importance of that first salute to the flag. Teach boys to wear their uniforms with pride and to be respectful of the flag and to give a crisp proper salute when they honor it.

Quotations

Quotations contain the wisdom of the ages, and are a great source of inspiration for Cubmaster’s minutes, material for an advancement ceremony or an insightful addition to a Pack Meeting program cover

Many have left their families to defend our freedom. We salute their bravery; we express our appreciation and support to their families. And we pray for their safe return. Bob Taft

If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker Hill meant; which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties. Henry Ward Beecher

I swing before your eyes as a bright gleam of color, a symbol of yourself, the pictured suggestion of that big thing which makes this nation. My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors. They are bright with cheer, brilliant with courage, firm with faith, because you have made them so out of your heart. For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making. Franklin Knight Lane

Cheers for the sailors that fought on the wave for it,
Cheers for the soldiers that always were brave for it,
Tears for the men that went down to the grave for it,
Here comes the flag! Arthur Macy, The Flag

It is the flag just as much of the man who was naturalized yesterday as of the men whose people have been here many generations. Henry Cabot Lodge

That piece of red, white and blue bunting means five thousand years of struggle upwards. It is the full-grown flower of ages of fighting for liberty. It is the century plant of human hope in bloom. Alvin Owsley

We take the stars from heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity, representing our liberty.

Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It means liberty. It means happiness.... Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every star and stripe means liberty.

A flag appears 'mid thunderous cheers,

The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history. Woodrow Wilson

Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. Henry Clay

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. Oprah Winfrey

Always stand on principle, even if you stand alone.
John Quincy Adams

Integrity has no need of rules. Albert Camus

We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.
Harry S. Truman

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free. Clarence S. Darrow

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. Robert F. Kennedy

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. Thomas Jefferson

Heroic service does not come from policy manuals. It comes from people who care - and from a culture that encourages and models that attitude. Valerie Oberle, VP, Disney University

Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God. Hebrews 13:16

To the world I may be one person,

"Heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences."