Boy Scout Survivors

[lapchinj]

As far as people walking up to scouts or leaders and insulting them, of course that’s not welcome. But understand that may be a survivor.

I hear what you're saying but seeing a scout leader on the street and just because someone was abused by a scout leader doesn't really have the right to just start insulting them. To strike up a conversation with them but I have a problem with the insulting part.

Let me explain my point - In 1969 I was 18 and was lucky to get into the USAF and not drafted into the army. I was stationed in Virginia at an airbase not too far from Norfolk Virginia. I was making $115/month split into two checks. I wanted to go back and visit NY since I had a 3-day pass. In order for me to be able to go home I would have to fly home. If I flew home in uniform, I paid $21 to Kennedy Airport or whatever they called it back then. I think the regular price was $42 round trip. Since I was only making $115/month of course I was going to fly in uniform and pay only $21 round trip. I got off the plane and went onto the concourse. All of a sudden, I was assailed by a bunch of war protesters screaming at me "baby killer" among other names. I tried to say something, but it was no use, they just kept calling me names. I kept walking with them all around me cursing me out. I walked up to a cab and asked him how much to Greenwich Village in Manhattan. He told me $40. I told him I could go to Virginia for $40. He told me that it was a different part of the city so it cost $20 extra. I found the subway and got directions to get to the village. I went up to the apartment and got a great welcome from my three friends. The first thing I did was change into civies. We spent a couple of days together and had a good time and I packed my Blues into my bag and left for Kennedy Airport. I went into a bathroom and changed into my blues and I went to the gate. We got back and I went to work. The next time I packed my civies into my bag. So when I got to Kennedy airport I would go straight to the bathroom and change into civies.

The question is should I have been attacked because of the war going on in NAM like that and accused of something I never did in a place I never was?

 

[MSUser2024]

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[lapchinj]

I have trouble finding a connection with Boy Scout survivors

Yeah I hear ya. And the title is "Boy Scout Survivors"

someone mentioned scout jamborees and I now can’t get the picture of the jamboree t-shirt my attacker was wearing from popping in my stupid head.

that was me who mentioned that. Sorry if that triggered you, I didn't mean to do that


Peace Out

 

[MSUser2024]

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[Napoleon]

If you were abused at home, no one is going to come on and make a post about how great home life was for them. To all people who came to post about how great scouting is, your being insensitive to the original post at the very least. Your posting of the great experience you had doesn't belong here. This one problem with being a scout victim, people support the enablers of the abuse rather than support the victim.

In filing bankruptcy scouting is breaking the law. They are not just evading payment but they are trying to ensure victims can't get justice from the insurance companies or third parties too. You can't file bankruptcy on debts of you children or a co-signer, you can only file on your own debts... but scouting is hiding its assets in it child companies (councils ) and filing a plan that insurers this injustice. They are revictimising us. That's not OK.

I hope the current lawsuit against them goes though and the bankruptcy gets turned on its head. This is the third time that 3rd party debt cancelion is being challenged, bsa doing this is not ok.

To the original master, yes the bankruptcy dragging on for years has and is triggering my ptsd.

 

[BlurryFace1999]

If you were abused at home, no one is going to come on and make a post about how great home life was for them. To all people who came to post about how great scouting is, your being insensitive to the original post at the very least. Your posting of the great experience you had doesn't belong here. This one problem with being a scout victim, people support the enablers of the abuse rather than support the victim.

agree