Prepared For Just Any Old Thing, by Louie in Ohio
I guess that I have always been a “Prepper”. Fifty years ago I joined the Boy Scouts. Of course most of us know the Scout Motto, Be Prepared. Lord Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the scouting movement was once asked, “Prepared for what?” His answer… “Just any old thing.” My Scoutmaster, Mr. Garrison, told us that we needed to keep our backpack packed and ready to go, that some evening he would send out the word and we must report ready for a camp out. There would be a time limit and we must get there under our own power …