Who's an Eagle???

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willic

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If you're an Eagle, let us know!!! Thanks Andy and Allen for your support to our Scouts! It truly makes an impact! Several Eagles carry Fiddlebacks and WA Surls tools they will covet forever! You guys are top notch! I wish Baden Powell had the opportunity to use your blades!
 
Thank you Gordy, you also have made a HUGE impact! Ya'll are what we all strive for! Thank you!
 
I am the proud father of an Eagle Scout; Dylan, the maker of Shadetree custom composites. :)
 
I am an Eagle Scout. It has been one of the best things I've ever earned, and Ronald Reagan is the "Honorary President" that signed mine.
 
Eagle with Silver Palm here.

(think you will find that most of us knifemakers out here were active in Scouts growing up).
 
I am an Eagle as well. Definitely one thing that I am extremely proud to have accomplished.
 
I can say more now because I've just had some coffee. So, yesterday morning I woke up 10 miles up my favorite river, sleeping on the ground, no tent, looking up at tall firs and hemlocks hundreds of years old, listening to the ten-second call of a thumb-sized winter wren and the scolding of a Douglas squirrel, at a campsite so hidden most people don't even know it's there. The Boy Scouts first took me to that place over 60 years ago. Then yesterday we hiked out 10 miles, temperature in the mid 80s, smoky from the fires in Eastern Washington. I can't say enough about how important the boy Scouts were to me.
 
Eagle Scout here. 1981. I've been a Scoutmaster on and off for the last 15 years too. My 14 year old son just finished his last Eagle required merit badge and finished his Eagle Project this summer. Court of Honor should be sometime this Fall. Grandpa and Grandma just asked me what knife I think he would like as a present. Choices, choices!
 
I am also an Eagle Scout. I got it in 1991. Got it about three weeks before my 18th birthday... I remember having to knock out three merit badges that I had forgotten about after putting so much time into my Eagle Project. I am still active as an adult even though I don't have any kids of my own. I am always surprised each year when we get kids who have never been to the forest or camped in any capacity... Something my parents introduced me to as a baby. For me, going into the Redwoods always makes me feel more connected to everything... probably the closest thing to a spiritual experience for me.
 
I'm an Eagle Scout. I can't remember what year. It was Clinton first term? I remember being ticked. My parents made me wait to get mine until we had done my older brothers project. That little delay meant his card was signed by Bush Sr. Mine was signed by Clinton just a bit later. We did our award ceremony together.

I've been a scout leader for 10 or so years.
 
joarthur said:
I can say more now because I've just had some coffee. So, yesterday morning I woke up 10 miles up my favorite river, sleeping on the ground, no tent, looking up at tall firs and hemlocks hundreds of years old, listening to the ten-second call of a thumb-sized winter wren and the scolding of a Douglas squirrel, at a campsite so hidden most people don't even know it's there. The Boy Scouts first took me to that place over 60 years ago. Then yesterday we hiked out 10 miles, temperature in the mid 80s, smoky from the fires in Eastern Washington. I can't say enough about how important the boy Scouts were to me.
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I always wished my parents put me threw boy scouts but that did not happen and now I can never achieve such a title, disappointing to say the least... where about are you in wa thats were I live
 
Had a great time Scouting and earned Eagle.
Here's a picture from National Jamboree in 1986.

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Good times.
 
My Eagle Scout certificate has been hanging on my wall for over 43 years. :) Dig that first autograph...:D

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Tom @ KnivesShipFree
 
I made Eagle just a few short years ago in 2011, but it's still the accomplishment I'm most proud of even having graduated from undergrad and started pharmacy school!
 
Always wish I had made it. Our Troop dissolved before I could achieve it. I was First Class with all the required Merit badges to get Life Scout. I never passed First Class because I could never tell the time with the stick and the shadow! I still have my scout handbook, actually it's here with me and my intent has been to go through it with my daughters so they too can learn some awesome life skills! I have a good number of my merit badge books too.
 
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