Archive for December 7, 2007

… A Date Which Will Live in Infamy…

Posted in Current Events by John E. Pannell on December 7th, 2007 at 6:35 am

December 7, 1941.   Sixty-six years ago today the United States formally entered World War II after the attack by Japan on Pearl Harbor and many other American targets in the Pacific.

From YouTube:  FDR’s speech to Congress.

I posted the full text of President Roosevelt’s speech on this blog last year.

 



"Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. "
Anthony Burgess


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A Thought for Today #2

Posted in Patch Collecting, Scouting News by John E. Pannell on December 7th, 2007 at 1:31 am

Why do so many of the powers that be within our Order assume that once a person completes his Ordeal and gets his sash he instantly becomes a patch collector?   At least that’s how so many act.

How many lodge business meetings have you been to where more discussion and effort is put into some patch of some sort, rather than on improving program or service..

What’s the first idea that comes to mind when a lodge needs money?  Let’s have a fundraiser patch!

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"My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."
John F. Kennedy


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