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Norman's avatar

I was a scout and to this day carry emotional baggage from that chapter of my life. We had it inscribed in our souls that when the flag was raised we were to stand rock solid at attention and not break rank for anything. Which caused me to wet my pants. I didn't break rank.

We played capture the flag and I came up with the brilliant idea of outflanking the opponents by trekking through the woods and making a run for their flag from the cover of forest. We spent a couple of hours fighting through dense underbrush and when we came out of the woods the flag was no where in sight. The adults were relieved to see us, apparently they had no idea where we were and were getting a bit worried.

Last but not least, on the final night we were treated to a deluge from the heavens and the tents all got soaking wet. We all moved into the camp kitchen which and stayed awake all night because all out sleeping bags were soaking wet. We put on dry clothes if we had them, some needed to dry them beside the camp stove, and made general nuisances of ourselves for the remainder of the night. There was no flag ceremony the next morning as we piled into the big yellow bus for the ride home.

Some sixty years later I look back with amusement at the antics of a bunch of kids in the woods and smile. Some scars are worn with pride.

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Wil Dalton's avatar

Haha! Awesome.

“Some scars are worn with pride.” - beautifully said.

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Maegan Heil's avatar

Michael Jackson.

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Meg Oolders's avatar

Hi Wil. I celebrated pizza day with my family today. But will celebrate again with leftovers tomorrow. I liked this piece a lot. I don't know that I can comfortably answer your question here, but I see you. And you're not alone. 💜

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Meg Oolders's avatar

That made it sound like I loved something really shady 😂. That's not what I meant. I was just struggling to come up with some"thing".

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Wil Dalton's avatar

Don’t worry! I didn’t assume anything!

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Meg Oolders's avatar

Ok. I probably shouldn't love pop music. But I really do. 😳

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Wil Dalton's avatar

Way back when you had to get music from a store and friends flipped through your CD holder notebook to select tunes while you were driving, I bought my best friend a Britney Spears album and he bought me a Dixie Chicks album, so we could each claim we didn’t buy them for ourselves, that CD was a gift.

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Meg Oolders's avatar

I still own a CD holder notebook. I'd be lying if I said it didn't include Christina Aguilera, NSYNC, and Ricky Martin... among others...

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