Boy Scout Commemorative Tribute Memorial
by Cora Wandel
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Boy Scout Commemorative Tribute Memorial
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Cora Wandel
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Photograph
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The Boy Scout Memorial commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America, which was in 1959. The memorial was completed in 1964 and dedicated by President Lyndon Johnson. It is located in President's Park, immediately south of the White House, in Washington, DC. The statue has three figures -- a Boy Scout in the middle, flanked by a man on one side, and a woman on the other. The male figure represents physical, mental, and moral fitness, love of country, good citizenship, loyalty, honor, courage and clean living. He carries a helmet, a symbol of masculine attire and a live oak branch, a symbol of peace and of strength. The female figure symbolizes enlightenment with the light of faith, love of God, high ideals, liberty, justice, freedom, democracy, and love of fellow man. She holds high the eternal flame of God's Holy Spirit. The figure of the Boy Scout represents the hopes of all past, present, and future scouts around the world and the hopes of every home, church, and school and that all that is great and noble in the nation's past and present will continue to live in scouts and through them for many generations to come.
The bronze statue was made by sculptor Donald DeLue. The Scout Oath is inscribed on the base of the statue (not visible in the photograph). The Scout Oath is:
"On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight."
Source: http://www.nps.gov/whho/learn/historyculture/boy-scout-memorial.htm
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February 3rd, 2016
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