Historic Oregon Boy Scout Camp welcomes first girl ‘prototroops’.

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Beneath Camp Meriwether’s flagpole stood 11 girls, right arms bent and raised to their brows in a salute. In that moment, they made history.

The girls were among 200 boys at Camp Meriwether, Oregon’s historic Boy Scouts camp, as they became pioneers in breaking down the 108-year-old scouting organization’s gender barrier…