Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for March 7, #1357

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Today's Wordle answer has one repeated letter.
There is one vowel in today's Wordle answer, but it's the repeated letter, so you'll see it twice.
Today's Wordle answer begins with the letter T.
Today's Wordle answer is often associated with Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts.
Today's Wordle answer can also refer to a unit in the military.
Today's Wordle answer is TROOP.
Yesterday's Wordle answer, March 6, No. 1356, was ALERT.
March 2, No. 1352: DEITY
March 3, No. 1353: SPEAR
March 4, No. 1354: CHECK
March 5, No. 1355: SCRUM

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Oxford surmises one reason may be because World War II was going on and many tradesmen were off serving in the military. "No one was coming out to rebuild it anytime soon," he said. "My troop, we had a break in our charter for World War II because the majority of our scouts, especially our older scouts, who were supposed to lead meetings, went off to World War II. We had the same thing with Vietnam as well." Preserving the history of the Boy Scout campground's existence was enjoyable for the young history buff, who said it was learning about the Revolutionary War around age 6 or 7 that sparked his passion for the subject. "If we're just looking at Lone Pine Hill. It was Native [American] land. Then it became homesteader land, right? And then from homesteaders, it became sheep land. And from sheep land, it became a Scout camp, and then from a Scout camp, it became a visitor center, right, talking about all the beautiful wildlife we have here. 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