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My son is in the Cub Scouts and I volunteer as a leader in the Pack. Each year our Cub Scout Pack does a food drive during the month of November and we always do a community service project for our December Pack activity. Last year we went to Harvesters and worked in the warehouse and will be doing the same again this weekend. For our December Pack meeting instead of doing a gift exchange for the boys this year we encouraged everyone to donate a toy for Toys For Tots. After informing my son what "TFT" was and what they did, he was pretty excited about taking a toy for a donation. Hopefully the boys will learn that doing little things like this to help out someone that may not be quite as fortunate as they are is worth the small amount of effort that it takes and that they will want to continue doing similar acts of kindness as they grow into young men and eventually raise families of their own.
As a father and a scout leader I try to remember that the most important thing that I can impart on these boys is that honor and duty aren't just words in a book that someone made up and put together in a sentence because they sound neat. But honor and duty as well as respect and responsibility actually mean something and that they are ideas or concepts to try and live their lives by.
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