Eagle Charge
CRAIG WILLIAM NOAH (cnoah@S-CWIS.UNOMAHA.EDU)
Mon, 26 Dec 1994 23:43:15 -0600
Hilding,
Here is the text of the charge that I was given:
I have the honor to give you the Eagle charge on the occasion
of your elevation to the highest rank in scouting. The Boy Scouts of all
nations constitute one of the most wholesome and significant influences in
the world's history. You have been conted worhty of this high rank in the
Boy Scouts of America.
Your responsibility goes beyond your fellow scouts: it extends
to your God and your Country. America has many fine things to offer you
and your children after you; but these good things depend for the most part
on the quality of her citizens. Our country has a great past. You can
help make the future still greater. I charge 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 to the high
level of service to God and your fellow men. So live and serve that those
who know you will be inspired to the finest living. We have too many who
use their strength and their brains to exploit others and gain selfish ends.
I charge you to be among those who dedicate their hearts and hands
to the common good.
Build America on the sound foundations of clean living, honest
work, unselfish citizenship, and reverence for God. Then, whatever others
do, you will leave behind you a record of which you may be justly proud.
Eagle candidate ___________, I charge you to enter this Eagle Scout
Brotherhood hoding before you the ideals of honor and service.
By repetition of the Eagle Scout Promise before your fellow
members you become an Eagle Scout.
Thought the words you use will be similar to those by which you
joined Scouting...tonight they will mean more than they could have meant
at any time in the past... When you pledge yourself on your sacred honor...
you will be sealing your eternal loyalty to the Code of the Eagle Scout...
with the words which closed the Declaration of Independence. Will the
Scout please stand...Attention!...Candidate: Scout sign...Repeat after me...
I reaffirm my allegiance to the three promises of the Scout Oath...
I thoughtfully recognize and take upon myself...the obligations and
responsibilities of the rank of Eagle Scout...On my honor, I will do my
best...to make by training and example...my rank and my influence...count
strongly for better citizenship...in my troop...and in my church...and in
my community, and in my contacts with other people...To this I pledge my
word of honor...TWO! (Continue with presentation of badge)
Sorry about the length, but I wasn't sure if you wanted the Eagle
Scout Oath included or not. I was told (during planning) that certain things
HAD to be done: the ceremony had to be officially opened, I had to be given
the charge and take the oath, the badge had to be formally presented, and
the ceremony had to be officially closed. Everything else that happened
was up to me (if I wanted it, it would be done (within reason)).
Tell your son congratulations for me, I wish I could be there.
Yours in Scouting,
Craig W. Noah
Eagle Scout class 1985
Assistant Scoutmaster,
Troop 364 Omaha, NE
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