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    This Boy Scout Welcomes Girls To His Troop

    The Boy Scouts of America announced that starting next year, it will welcome girls into some of its programs. At least one Scout believes that welcoming girls is friendly, courteous and kind.
    by Anna Boiko-Weyrauch Oct 14, 2017 2 minutes
    Boy Scout Charlie Underdown of Seattle says that welcoming girls into the group fits with the Scout Law, which says to be "trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent."

    For Charlie Underdown, 11, letting girls into Boy Scouts is actually a very Boy Scout thing to do.

    At a pizza restaurant in Seattle reads aloud from his scout handbook: "A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind...." Charlie takes the Scout Law to mean you shouldn't exclude anybody.

    "They literally

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