The attention for the Boy Scouts of America should be used as a springboard. First came the shock, then the grief. As dozens of people injured in a tornado at an Iowa Boy Scout camp recovered, families and friends tried to make sense of the deaths of four teenage Scouts who had gone to the elite camp to learn how to be leaders. At a vigil held in an Omaha park Thursday night, people wiped tears from their eyes as Scout leaders weaved through the crowd asking, "Did you have any there?""It's hard to wrap your brain around it," scoutmaster Doug Rothgeb said earlier. "It's something that as parents and scouters, we know the risks. We know the boys know what they're doing. Those four boys ended up in the wrong spot at the wrong time. It's all Mother Nature." Rothgeb's troop spent Thursday in Omaha, comforting the family of 13-year-old Josh Fennen, a troop member who was killed in the twister. The tornado — which the National Weather Service said packed winds of around 145 mph — destroyed a building where the group had taken shelter.The family of another victim, 14-year-old Ben Petrzilka, put their grief into action. Read On

Radio broadcasters and some members of Congress are calling on Democrats to celebrate July Fourth — dubbed "Radio Independence Day" — by pledging to protect the airwaves from censorship. Congressional Democrats have threatened to reinstate the so-called Fairness Doctrine, which was put in place by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1949 to force the nation’s TV and radio broadcasters to make time for voices on both sides of controversial issues. It was dropped as new technologies offered an abundance of sources for information. Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., has introduced the Broadcaster Freedom Act (H.R. 2905), which would prohibit the FCC from reinstating the Fairness Doctrine. “Bringing back the Fairness Doctrine would amount to government control of political views on the commercial and religious airwaves of America, and it must be opposed," Pence told Family News in Focus. At a press conference Wednesday, Pence called on Congress to support the Broadcaster Freedom Act before July Fourth. Read On

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