Thanks for all the replies, and yes, the journey, I think, is half of the prize. The goal is the other half. I will not say that everything that ever happened in my scouting experience was positive or that everyone I met was someone I would choose to be friends with, but I would say there was a lot more positive than negative in both of those matters, and even in the negative situations I learned something. Still, it would have been nice, no, very nice to be able to say I am an Eagle scout. But I think my experience has helped more than one young man make the decision to "git 'r done."