My oldest son made Eagle during his last year in Boy Scouts, along with 11 other young men.
My youngest son made Eagle during his last year in Boy Scouts, along with 7 other young men.
Our Troop produces more Eagles each year than any other in our Council.
Sorry you’re not around to come to a meeting. It might alter your perspective.
CW2 ping?
Perhaps I used the wrong modifier when I said kids today are “mostly” useless. A large percentage are, if not the majority, but of course there are good kids today, as your paired Eagles testify.
I’ve read many a story (and written a few of them, in my journalist days) about kids who do brave, wonderful, generous and patriotic things. But too often I see kids doing stupid, selfish and self-serving things, to the detriment of society. I blame bad kids on bad parents, and we certainly have plenty of those.
But I stand by my assertion that veterans may be needed to teach the young when the time comes to recover our freedom and liberty. Many a “punk” was turned into a “good man” with the help of a loud gentleman in a Smokey the Bear hat.
(Two Eagles in the same family ... bully for you, Bear! Good job of parenting!)