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To: carriage_hill
You made Eagle at age 12? My card is dated April 1972 with Richard Nixon's signature. I was 15. Still riding my bicycle to troop meetings...even as SPL. My dad insisted on earning 42 merit badges...just because 21 was the basic requirement.
97 posted on 07/25/2012 11:51:27 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin

Mine’s 11/20/63 with John F Kennedy, Honorary President, Ellsworth H Augustus, President.

http://www.scouting.org/About/FactSheets/presidents.aspx

I was youngest Eagle Scout ever, then; waiver signed by JFK to allow it, since requirement was 13yrs old. I had 59 or 60 MBs; can’t remember. I still have all my Cub/Scout/Explorer uniforms, MB sash, O of A Vigil sash, God & Country etc.

I still rode my bike, too, or walked to mtgs. Summer camps, NRA competition, winter Klondike Derbys... miss those good years, friends and leaders.


99 posted on 07/25/2012 1:19:25 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (All libs and most dems think that life is just a sponge bath, with a happy ending.)
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