Boy Scouts vs Hitlerjugend

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In a message dated 05/05/2000 5:12:11 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
millison at online-journalist.com writes:

<<  WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and etc. come after the Boy
 Scouts; I imagine that many Boy Scouts died in those wars, some probably
 participated in the planning of those wars, and some may have committed
 atrocities therein. GR offers up the possibility that whether they fought
 on one or the other side of the War, soldiers (and the societies that
 supported them) wound up  fighting for the same cause:  perpetuating an
 entity,  the War, and the corporations and individuals who profit from War.
 Some former Scouts probably go on to become neo-Nazis, too, as they come
 into contact with the Nazi ideology and the pantheon of Nazi heroes
 available for worship, which represent, unfortunately, part of Germany's
 legacy of the 20th century. >>  Apropos of nothing in particular --
JFK was our first president to have been a member of the BSA; Gerald Ford, I 
believe, was the second.  How about that!
Actually, one of the nicest old guys I ever met, the father of a good friend 
of mine, had been a member of the HJ.  He was captured by the Soviets in 
Czechoslovakia a few weeks before the war ended & spent the next ten years 
helping to rebuild the USSR.  Such is life.

jbf