[23661] in APO-L
Re: [APO-L] new logo
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Finder, Randolph J Mr NGB-ARNG)
Mon Mar 31 11:22:44 2003
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:21:19 -0500
Reply-To: "Finder, Randolph J Mr NGB-ARNG" <Randolph.Finder@ngb.army.mil>
From: "Finder, Randolph J Mr NGB-ARNG" <Randolph.Finder@ngb.army.mil>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
> Randy, sorry, but those 3 items in the lower part of the
> shield are NOT trefoils. They are fleur-de-lis, sometimes
> referred to as arrowheads. As a longtime scout/scouter,
> trefoils and fleur-de-lis are two VERY different items to me.
> The Trefoil is the 3 leafed clover design used by World
> Guiding (aka Girl Scouting), while the fleur-de-lis is the
> arrowhead/compass head design (same as the design used by the
> French Royal family and seen a lot in New Orleans) using in
> World Scouting (Boy scouting, that is).
Oooooh! Interesting. The biggest difference seems to be that what the Girl
Scouts use has three equal parts above and what the boy scouts has does not,
that seems to make us much closer to the BSA symbol and actually a little
closer to the WOSM symbol.
Randy
