“What is this international brotherhood of Boy Scouting that transcends the barriers of race and culture, that pushes a man to forget ideologies and narrow nationalism and stills brutal instinct that stirs the blood lust in otherwise civilized human beings?”
There’s this story during World War II about a badly wounded American soldier whose life was saved by his enemy somewhere in the South Pacific.
The American soldier unconsciously made the Scout sign (three-finger hand salute).
This prompted the Japanese soldier who came across him to give him first aid instead of shooting him. The Japanese left a note that said: A Scout cannot kill another Scout.”
