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Originally Posted by Guymullins
What exactly is your problem with the Boy Scouts? Dont tell me they were actually invented by Davy Crockett and Mr Bowie at the Alamo?
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Sarcasm noted.
I was a Scout as were my sons, one of which achieved the rank of Eagle.
This is what the BSA says about its founder and their history.
http://www.scout.org/en/about_scouti...t_of_the_world
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Originally Posted by Guymullins
Today, the marching tune used by the Marine Commandos is Sarie Marais, an old Afrikaans folk song.
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And an even older CSA tune.
Granted, the "Sarie Marais" was a Boer song about the Boer War, but the tune was originally called "Ellie Rhee" and it comes - ironically - from the Confederate States of America.
"Ellie Rhee" tells the story of a Tennessee slave who runs away from his master but now wonders if the price of his new-found freedom (the loss of his one true love) was too high to pay.
Although the song never enjoyed enormous popularity here, it certainly has as the basis for "My Sarie Marais Is So Ver Van My Hart."
And so it goes...
Richard 
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