Scout Pack includes boys who recently have been homeless

 
BY BRYAN PAINTER Columnist
Published: March 13, 2011

Go back to when you were 7 to 9 years old.

Imagine if you didn’t have your own address, because you lived in a homeless shelter.

Imagine if you’d seen your father strike your mother in the face.

Imagine if people looked at you and wondered if what you learned in Cub Scouts could keep the pack number from some day being replaced by a Department of Corrections number.

I’m so sorry, if you didn’...


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