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In the Race
Now, here, you see, it takes all the blogging I can do to keep in the same place. If I want to get somewhere else, I must blog twice as fast as that! You see, I'm in the Red Queen's Race...
The Lost Boys
By Janet Evans
Friday, Jun 13 2008, 11:10 AM
 Remnants from a Boy Scout uniform sit in the rubble left by a tornado t
hat struck at the Little Sioux Scout Ranch, seen Thursday, June 12, 2008,
near Little Sioux, Iowa. Four Boy Scouts were killed and 48 people were
injured when the tornado tore through their Mid-America Council camp
Wednesday night. (AP Photo/Matt Miller,POOL)
Lost Boys....
Maybe not forever, but that’s what they remind me of.
Just look at the picture of Zach Jessen, speaking to Iowa’s Gov. Chet Culver.
Look at his face to understand some of what I mean.
Zach Jessen a survivor of the tornado that killed 4 scouts Wednesday night
talks with Iowa Gov. Chet Culver Eight-year-old Cub Scout Baileigh Rohde
holds a candle and looks up at Boy Scout Josh Dohse, left, during a candlelight
vigil in Omaha, Neb., Thursday, June 12, 2008, for the four Boy Scouts killed
after a twister flattened their camp in Iowa Wednesday night. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
You sense it when the boys describe their ordeal of when that devastating tornado struck
Wednesday as they waited for a rain storm to pass by; with statements like this,
“When I got up,” Cody said, “there was a boy right in front of me, face down, in a pool of blood. I had never seen that before."
Look at the trees snapped like twigs....
Laura Inns/Omaha World-Herald, via Associated Press
An aerial view of the remnants of a building destroyed at the Little Sioux Scout Ranch in Iowa.
Lost boys….except this wasn’t Neverland. This was very real.
"I was going to the Lord's side, and I was going to go there flying," recalled Bowerman, who was wearing a splint on his wrist. "It felt like I was about to be lifted up. I just hugged the ground as much as I could."
Eight-year-old Cub Scout Baileigh Rohde
holds a candle and looks up at Boy Scout
Josh Dohse, left, during a candlelight vigil
in Omaha, Neb., Thursday, June 12, 2008,
for the four Boy Scouts killed after a twister
flattened their camp in Iowa Wednesday night.
(AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
I suppose what I'm really saying is boyhood lost.
It just breaks my heart.
from the Seattle Times
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Scouts' Training Helped On Night of Terror
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