My name is Don Holbert, I was born and raised in Kansas City, but currently reside in Sedalia. I grew up in a Scouting family. My father was a Cubmaster and an assistant Scoutmaster for almost 20 years. My mother was a den mother for almost 14 years. Scouting was fun. You went to family functions and all the families there were scouting families.
As I grew from Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts I belonged to one troop but our church had another troop and I did several functions with the church troop. I can remember in particular the church troop decided to do a campout on the church on Saturday before Scout Sunday. This campout was the first time I had stayed in a tent with a group of guys camping. Saturday was nice and we did a lot of outside functions and, of course, made the fires to cook on.
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