I think the girl scouts did have more fun, certainly I always wanted to go where they were for nascent puberty reasons, and I had an "in", cause my mother ran a Girl Scout troop.   I always found American Boy Scouts very militaristic; having earlier been part of British and Canadian scout packs, where things were much more Jungle Books.   But of course when one reads about Baden-Powell and the "scout" metaphor, one can see that even the Brit version was pseudo-military (hybridized with the nature stuff of Grey Owl and others).

I met Harry Truman as a scout -- we were parade marshalls for him once. It was a cold, cold day, and I was wearing bright green earmuffs, and he stopped and chatted to me about what great earmuffs I had. I had enough presence of mind to offer them to him, and he laughed, and shook my hand, and said that it was one of evils of being an ex-president that he had to be dignified even if his ears fell off. I was naturally always big on Harry Truman after that. I always regretted not sending in that remark when all those books of Truman quotes were being generated.

yours,

Peter T.