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Originally Posted by arvid1978
Nowhere was it written that this was how APO was to remain forever and ever. If APO never changed, I seriously doubt you and I would be having this conversation unless you has previous Scouting affiliation like I do.
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A tangental commment on this.
One thing that really annoys me with some Brothers is their rigid attitude toward change. I heard a lot of this in regards to recent proposals to change the Toast Song. The worse of this attitudes would be "I want APO to remain just the way it was when Frank Reed Horton founded it". This is just such a stupid attitude.
I love and respect history, and I love and respect the history of APO. But if there is ONE thing I've learned in my studies of our history is HOW MUCH WE HAVE CHANGED. I do not feel that these changes have altered our fundamental principles (tho there have, IMO, been attempts to do so). But there have been changes. Sadly, since so few Brothers have a decent understanding of our history, this attitude prevails. The history given in our Pledge Manual is just a high-level basics. And many chapters, IMO, emphasis their chapter history over national history such that their members have an even poorer understanding of it.
For instance. Our Toast Song did not come around until after H. Roe Bartle was our National President. How many realize this?
This is why I've been working on a series of presentations on APO history that I finally hope to present as a workshop at our next National Convention. Hopefully it will happen.
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