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November 1999 Discover Our Family Heritage |
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OPENING - AMERICA IS CUB #1: America is the sound of fireworks on the Fourth of July. CUB #2: America is the smell of freshly mown lawns on a cool summer night. CUB #3: America is the red-orange hue of the desert sunset. CUB #4: America is the sound of school children at recess. CUB #5: America is the crunch of snow under a child's sled. CUB #6: America is the peal of church bells on a quiet Sunday morning. CUB #7: America is the smell of a country bar-b-que simmering over the fire. CUB #8: America is!! INDUCTION - FAMILY WELCOME WITH BOBCAT PRESENTATION CUBMASTER: We are happy again to welcome ____# of boys and their families, who have joined our Pack. Will the following families please come forward. (Read names of boys in attendance.) On the table beside us is a unique ceremonial board. It contains but two yellow candles. One candle (light first candle) stands for us, the parents. The other candle (light second candle) stands for our sons, the Cub Scouts. With both candles in place, the ceremonial board is in balance. Should we remove the parent's candle (loosen wing nut and remove first candle), the Cub Scout candle goes down. This is what will happen if we, the parents, do nothing with our Cub Scout sons. If, on the other hand we work with our sons and guide them along their way, we can create a balance (replace candle and tighten wing nut) which can be compared to the beauty and symmetry of a tree. OPENING - OUR HERITAGE OF FREEDOM PERSONNEL: Narrator and 6 or more Cub Scouts EQUIPMENT: American Flag, record player, recording such as "America the Beautiful" or "This is My Country", Pack flag. ARRANGEMENT: The color guards advance the flags in the normal manner while the patriotic record is playing. They come to the front and stand at attention, facing audience while narrator reads the ceremony. The record player volume should be turned down to provide background music during narration. NARRATOR: The heritage of freedom that is ours today was won on the battlefields of yesterday by men who pledged that future generations of Americans might live unshackled by the bonds of the past, that they might walk, head erect, in a new world - with new ideas - new remedies for ancient ills - and in a climate free from fear. "We hold these truths to be self-evident" wrote Thomas Jefferson "that all men are created equal". Those were words destined to ring down the corridors of time.. words which would stir the conscience of mankind. |