Originally Posted by GrandmK

I know this thread is old and I am slow getting to it but wanted to say thanks for the memories. My husband and I were known as Mr and Mrs Scout in out town. I signed my husband up to be the Scoutmaster when he was in Korea. We started the pack in our town and the boys needed a Scoutmaster to have a troop to go into. We ran Cub Scout Day camp for over 20 years. First year we only had 35 boys but the last years we only accepted 240 boys!!

A story about our son. He had one the project and merit badges. All he had left was writing it up. We had seen him grow and mature and had become a nice young man. I kept harping on him to get it done. Very close to his 18th birthday the nagging got the best of him. He looked me square in the eye and said "mom the first thing on the Eagle application is of a scouts free will, get off my back!!" My husband and I had a long talk and agreed in our eyes he was a Eagle and we could not force him to do it so we let it go. He got it done 2 days before his 18th birthday. He is 38 now and we talk about it. He was feeling sort of lost in being our son. You know Mr. and Mrs. Scout. I guess sort of like a ministers children sometimes feel.
He did not want a ceremony and seldom mentioned it. When he went in the Navy he had not even told the recruiter. The day he left he called and asked me if I could fax a copy of the certificate. He found out it meant he got an automatic pay raise just for being an Eagle Scout!!
Oh the memories I have Thanks again