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Tango0108 Feb 2026 12:51 p.m. PST

…—this is the real history

"Dorothy Christian Moore knew the rules when she climbed in the dark to the ship's bridge. "This is strictly forbidden," she wrote as she crossed the Atlantic Ocean, "and I hadn't been there two minutes before someone seized me roughly from behind." She explained to the officer her pursuit of the sunrise, and together they watched the blue horizon split into silver, then blaze to gold—like so many campfires that would define her years in the United States.


She arrived the next morning at the invitation of the Girl Scouts to spend the summer of 1923 sharing her skills. Her stint as a volunteer in an officer's hospital kitchen during World War I, feeding 150 men a day, had earned her the affectionate nickname "Cookie." After the war, she continued in public service as a leader in Girl Guides, the first sister organization to Boy Scouts, both created in England…."


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