It took a while, but the final shoe dropped the other day in the mysterious case of those \u2014 What did Rod \u201cfriend of this blog\u201d Dreher call them<\/a>? \u2014 Nazi Christian Youth in a church in North Richland Hills, Texas.<\/p>\n I am referring, of course, to that Associated Press photo what showed a group of Train Life boys standing in a circle singing the song \u201cTaps.\u201d It\u2019s an old end-of-the-day Scouting tradition and it involves a symbolic, sun-setting gesture, too. <\/p>\n Alas, the original AP cutline missed, or hid, that fact:<\/p>\n ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 2014 AND THEREAFTER \u2014 In this Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014 photo, Trail Life members form a circle and recite the organization\u2019s creed during meeting in North Richland Hills, Texas. Trail Life USA, the new Christian-based alternative to the Boy Scouts of America, excludes openly gay members. (AP Photo\/LM Otero) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n A later cutline, used by the San Jose Mercury News<\/em>, helped a bit:<\/p>\n In this Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014 photo, Trail Life members move their arms as they sing \u201cTaps\u201d in a circle during a meeting in North Richland Hills, Texas. Trail Life USA, the new Christian-based alternative to the Boy Scouts of America, excludes openly gay members. (LM Otero\/AP)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n So what is the problem, readers might ask (if they have not been following this story)? <\/p>\n Click here to see the photo<\/strong> in question<\/a>, complete with what appears to be a salute, shall we say, drawn from World War II-era Germany.<\/p>\n As I wrote in a post the other day<\/a>:<\/p>\n Isn\u2019t it amazing that journalists at the Associated Press decided to focus on this precise and rather dangerous \u2014 in terms of negative symbolic content \u2014 moment in the arc of those slowly descending young arms? What a coincidence!<\/p>\n Or perhaps this was an innocent mistake.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Apparently, folks at AP have decided that something did, in fact, go wrong in the editorial process \u2014 somewhere.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Thus, this tweet from media blogger Erik Wemple at The Washington Post<\/em>:<\/p>\n Anto-Boy Scouts group in Nazi salute: COMPLETE FABRIACTION. http:\/\/t.co\/m3Ceveb88Q<\/a> @ErikWemple<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Little Australia (@LitThom) March 4, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n