As I mentioned earlier, the highest rank a boy can achieve in
Scouting is Eagle. This award can take from 2 to 6 years to accomplish. While
the ratio of boys who join the Boy Scouts and achieve Eagle is about 5-7 percent,
in Dad’s troops, those that ratio seemed much higher. It is likely that in his
16 years as Scoutmaster Dad has lost the exact count of those who achieved this
rank under his leadership, none of us will ever forget the day he had 12 Eagles
at one Court of Honor.
