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The rest of that motto was originally “… to die for your country.”
The boy scouts were originally a branch of the military, after all. Their job was to sneak through the wilderness, find the enemy army, and report back things like numbers or men, horses, equipment, and troop movements.
They were BOY scouts, because if a foreign army finds a kid sneaking around the woods around their encampment, they might be a little less likely to slit his throat than if they found an adult doing that. Emphasis on “a little”. Also the boys were usually too small to do the work of proper soldiers, so they were considered expendable.
…which brings us back around to making young boys repeat over and over that they should “be prepared to die for your country”.
I’m curious where you got this information, because despite having a long association with Scouting (my brother made Eagle Scout and I participated in Girl Scouts) I’ve never heard this story. The closest analogy would be Hitler’s Youth Groups (which took place long after Scouting was here in the USA) with a second being in England where Scouts did aid in the Coastal Watch. In the USA they never got closer to military action than helping to gather supplies needed for the war effort. A task shared with most ablebodied people not serving overseas.
You are either an idiot or a troll, which brings us back to the first choice. Two seconds on a search engine will show how far out there you are. And if you were trying to be funny? You failed, miserably.
The boy scouts were create because the Army printed a manual ‘The Scouts Handbook’ which was part camping instructions, part survival guide, and part military guide for scouting enemies. Boys thought it was cool, and were buying it to do the things in it. One child advocate though it was dangerous, so rewrote it to remove the dangerous parts, and add other life lessons he felt would help the boys. Thus ‘The Boy Scouts Handbook’ was created, the organization was created later.
Source: (paraphrased) The Boy Scouts Handbook (circa 197?) (different printings might not include this)