Preservation: Call to Arms

Call to Arms MISS: “A famous ad that most boy baby boomers will recall from Boys’ Life, the old scouting magazine of the ’50s, showed a happy lad, carrot-topped and freckly like any number of Peck’s Bad Boys, his teeth haphazardly arrayed within his wide, gleeful mouth under eyes wide as pie platters as he exclaimed on Christmas morn, ‘Gee, Dad . . . A Winchester!’ All gone, all gone, all gone.” Thus began Washington Post writer Stephen Hunter’s poignant piece about U.S. Re