c2022 B.L.Greene I see the two words and delete the email instantly. It's come to that. I don't want to be bothered with false narratives or dubious statistics. What do they want anyway? Funny how something once so benign can evoke such a response. But the news is out, and the scandal is documented. The American Dream has taken another direct hit. The Boy Scouts of America have become tarnished. Like the Catholic church, the workplace, the military, and the teacher's lounge, Scouting is the latest victim to succumb to charges of sexual abuse. Over 80,000 documented cases in a class-action lawsuit have resulted in bankruptcy. Reality has a way of catching up. Those uniforms, kerchiefs, merit badge sashes, and even the insignia seem forever tainted. I see the email vanish abruptly and that image dissolves into a multi-image collage in my mind. A red coffee can, a ten-dol...
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