Archive for February 26, 2007

Breast Cancer Awareness Flap

Posted in Current Events, Patch Collecting by John E. Pannell on February 26th, 2007 at 7:21 pm

Sometimes patches are issued for rather unusual reasons.   Some of these reasons are intersting, trivial, or silly.   Ocassionally patches are issued for personal and charitable reasons.   I was recently made aware of one of these.

Japeechen 341 has issued a flap for breast cancer awareness.   There is a very good reason for this flap.   In explaining the reason behind this issue Nick DeMarco writes:

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"Where there are no tigers, a wildcat is very self-important. "
Korean Proverb


Cloth Talk #24: Patch trader, collector… No: Historian

Posted in Scouting Blogs and Websites by John E. Pannell on February 26th, 2007 at 3:27 pm

Thanks to the guys at ScoutHistory.net, Cloth Talk #24 is now available for downloading either through iTunes or by direct download at http://www.scouthistory.net/blog/. Remember, you do not need to have iTunes installed in order to listen to Cloth Talk. They also have a dialup-friendly version available for those who do not have high speed internet connections.

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"Television is where you watch people in your living room that you would not want near your house."
Groucho Marx


Lodge 104: 2006 NOAC Error Flap Found

Posted in Occoneechee 104, SR-7B Lodges by John E. Pannell on February 26th, 2007 at 3:20 am

This image was recently sent to me. Those familiar with Occoneechee’s 2006 NOAC pieces may notice the error almost immediately. The thunderbird is seen here holding the Prince of Wales Trophy, which he only holds on the white bordered F5.

I have talked to my usual sources within this lodge. It is not a fake of any type. Rather it appears to be a manufacturer’s error that someone got into the supply of patches sent to the lodge when they reordered the black bordered fundraiser set. Continue Reading »



"If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."
Winston Churchill