Eagle Scouts

[tombstone]

never was a scout. Should have been. I can get lost in my backyard

[Wingman]

91 was in Belzoni. I think Delta merged with Chickasaw or something.

pault14 will know. He and I and 6 or 7 other "gay" boys got Eagle at the same time. One of the largest Eagle ceremonies in our area at that time.

When i was in school if you were in the scouts you were made fun of.

Same here. Sometimes, doing the unpopular thing builds character. Not all merit badges were about whittling or basket weaving. There were ones about citizenship and stuff in general that helped you learn about things you might want to make a career of some day. I look at Scouts as the pre-cool survival/nature activity that they now show on TV (Survivorman, etc.)

[teul2]

I was a boy scout.
I quit before i got to Eagle.

Dad was a big time eagle scout when he was young man.
He taught several summers out at Camp Kickapoo (sp) in Clinton.

[champcaller]

troop 30 eagle scout



yall dont give pete too hard of a time. he was just messin with me on an inside joke thing. he wasnt bein serious

[bigwater]

tell ya a true story bout the scouts.. i owe my life to the scouts.. back in 77 my cousin who was a scout ( 9 years old at the time) and myself (6 years old) went with my grandfather to his cotton farm in rural montgomery county.. while he was out checking on some machinery, me and my cousin climbed into an empty cotton trailer..

i was at the bottom of the cotton trailer my cousin was up near the top..

the guy drivng the cotton picker says he never saw us.. he pulled up to the trailer to empty all the cotton he had picked.. he dumped something like 3000 lbs of cotton direclty on top of me and my couisn..

if it hadn't been for a nearby neighbor who was just pulling down the county gravel road i would have died.. the neighbor had wittnessed us being buried.. he pulled down to the field and started yelling that there were some kids buried under all that cotton..

my uncle and grandfather climbed board the trailer.. and went to digging.. they pretty much immedialty found my cousin.. however i was all the way at the bottom. they ended up having to turn the entire trailer over before my lifeless body was finally discovered..

luckily for me my cousin who was a boy scout had just taken a course on mouth to mouth recesitation.. there was a boy nine years old and three grown men, ...the 9 year old scout took over the situation and saved my life.. i had no pulse no heartbeat.. and was blue..

my cousin won the highest award that could be presented by the scouts.. the story was published in boys life magaizne which was very popular at the time..

so let me give a "BIG THANKS" to the scouts.. here here..

thanks to the scouts i'm alive today and perfectly normal..

[DanP]

I look at Scouts as the pre-cool survival/nature activity that they now show on TV (Survivorman, etc.)

Me too, we had a blast. Of course we were always running around playing pranks on people and getting in trouble. We had some good times backpacking over in Bankhead ntl forest.

[teul2]

so let me give a "BIG THANKS" to the scouts.. here here..

thanks to the scouts i'm alive today and perfectly normal..

Ditto the thanks,
Perfectly normal is debatable !!

[bullsprig]

Troop 8

1986

[TODO]

Bigwater, u must be the reason my momma always told me dont play in cotton trailers! Good thing your cousin paid attention. I was in Troop 2, Cleveland with the doc for a long time, Cleveland had several troops, it was hip to be in troop 2, the rest were made up of a buncha squares. I quit right before eagle, i think all i had left was the project itself, not a wise decison on my end.

[regishay]

I learned about politics early in life from the Scouts. I had my Star badge and completed everything to get my Life. I had already completed enough merit badges to get eagle. All was left was basically do the Eagle project. Becuase of one thing I was told I couldnt get my eagle Badge.

"Be active in your troop and patrol for at least six months as a Life Scout."

From the time they would said i would earn the Life badge, i had about 5 months left to my 18th birthday. Mind you I started Scouts when i was almost 14 and went thru 3 scout masters. One died and the troop was out of commision for about 6-8 months, only me and two other guys showed up. Then we started getting more, but i was put in the role as patrol leader, and then senior patrol leader. The thing that got me was the Scout masters son was older than i was and we got the life rank at the same time, but he got his Eagle badge. I guess he could pull some strings for his own son, but couldnt for me. Dont have any regrets, i am going to make sure my son makes eagle. I did make it to Order of the Arrow, anyone else here on the Order?

[chevy01234]

I was also in the order of the arrow, I made it to brotherhood but never pursued vigil.

[randall25x]

I was in scouts for a while but didnt stay in long enough. My grandfather on the other hand was an eagle scout and also got the Silver Beaver award. He was a long time scoutmaster in Greenwood.

[chevy01234]

randall, you have a PM.

[GulfCoast]

Brotherhood member of the Order of the Arrow (Chicksa Lodge) (www).

I discovered girls and cars about the time I should have been putting in hours towards Vigil. Oh well.....

[Po Monkey Lounger]

not an Eagle Scout, but US Army Scout, 1983, Fort Knox Kentucky