“I was your age once and you have never been mine. I remember what it was like and I did not fully appreciate what a legion of leaders, a host of leaders, a nation of leaders did for me as a scout...

Here today, and tomorrow and last week and next month and forever, we pray there will be leaders who will invest themselves in the next generation and pass the torch of liberty and love and loyalty and service and devotion and reverence to you.

I am the beneficiary of those kind of leaders and so are you. The principles and virtues, the laws, the oaths, the mottos, the emblems, the symbols, the statement of scouting... is 45 years more important to me now, than the day I received my eagle.”

Distinguished Eagle Scout
Jeffrey R. Holland

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