Becoming an Eagle Scout - A Simplified, Step by Step Guideline for the Life Scout's Eagle Project (Paperback)

An Eagle Scout
Eagle Scout Challenge The Boy Scouts of all nations constitute one of the most wholesome and significant influences in the world's history. You have been declared worthy of the high rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America. All who know you rejoice in your achievements. Your position, as you well know, is one of honor and responsibility. You are a marked man. As an Eagle Scout, you are expected to exemplify in your daily lives the high principles and values expressed in the Scout Oath and the Scout Law. You have assumed a solemn obligation to do your duty to God, to your country, to your fellow scouts, and to all other human beings. This is a great undertaking, which you are now just beginning. As you live up to your obligations, you bring honor to yourself and to your brother scouts. As an Eagle Scout, you will be a champion to other scouts and an example to your community. Remember, your actions will be more conspicuous. People will expect more of you. It is your responsibility to help maintain the high regard that all Americans have for Eagle Scouts. To falter would bring discredit, not only to you, but also to your family and your fellow Eagles. Keep your ideals high and your honor bright. Your responsibilities, however, go beyond. They extend to our country and to God. America has many good things to give to you and to your children after you; but these good things depend, for the most part, on the quality of its citizens. Our country has had a great past. You can help make the future even greater. As your Scoutmaster, I challenge you to undertake your citizenship with solemn dedication. Be a leader, but lead only toward the best. Lift up every task you do and every office you hold with a high level of service to God and to your fellow human beings. Live and serve so that those who know you will be inspired to the highest ideals of life. Therefore, I challenge to be among those who dedicate their hearts and hands to the common good. Build America on the solid foundations of clean living, honest work, unselfish citizenship, and reverence to God. Then, whatever others may do, you will leave behind records of which you may be justly proud.