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Dear Mom & Dad,

Our scoutmaster told us all to write to our parents in case you saw the flood on TV and worried. We are OK. Only one of our tents and two of our sleeping bags got washed away. Luckily, none of us got drowned because we were all up on the mountain looking for AJ when it happened. Oh yes, please call AJ's mother and tell her he is OK. He can't write because of the cast
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I got to ride in one of the search & rescue jeeps. It was neat. We never would have found him in the dark if it hadn't been for all the lightning.  Scoutmaster Wright got mad at AJ for going on a hike alone without telling anyone. AJ said he did tell him, but it was during the fire so he probably didn't hear him.  Did you know that if you put gas on a fire, the gas would blow up? The wet wood still didn't burn, but one of our tents did and also some of our clothes.  Jaylen is going to look weird until his hair grows back!

We will be home on Saturday if Scoutmaster Wright gets the truck fixed. It wasn't his fault about the wreck. The brakes worked OK when we left. Scoutmaster Wright said that a truck that old you have to expect something to break down; that's probably why he can't get insurance on it. We think it's a neat truck. He doesn't care if we get it dirty, and if it's hot, sometimes he lets us ride on the tailgate. It gets pretty hot with 10 people in a truck. He let us take turns riding in the trailer until the highway patrolman stopped and talked to us.

Scoutmaster Wright is a neat guy. Don't worry, he is a good driver. In fact, he is teaching Josh how to drive. But he only lets him drive on the mountain roads where there isn't any traffic. All we ever see up there are logging trucks.

This morning all of the guys were diving off the rocks and swimming out in the lake. Scoutmaster Wright wouldn't let me because I can't swim and AJ was afraid he would sink because of his cast, so he let us take the canoe across the lake. It was great. You can still see some of the trees under the water from the flood.
Scoutmaster Wright isn't crabby like some scoutmasters. He didn't even get mad about losing the life jackets. He has to spend a lot of time working on the truck so we are trying not to cause him any trouble.

Guess what? We've all passed our first aid merit badges. When Chris dove in the lake and cut his arm, we got to see how a tourniquet works. Also David and I threw up. Scoutmaster Wright said it probably was just food poisoning from the leftover chicken. He said they got sick that way with the food they ate in the Navy. I'm so glad he got out and became our scoutmaster.  He said he sure figured out how to get things done better while he was doing his time.

I have to go now. We are going into town to mail our letters and buy bullets. Don't worry about anything. We are fine.

Love,
Nathan

P.S. How long has it been since I had a tetanus shot?

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