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On Sunday evening, Sept. 9 Troop 36 Court of Honor convened at the Washington Fire Hall. One hundred scouts, scout leaders, friends of scouting, and friends and family of David Massie gathered to see him receive Boy Scouting’s highest honor, the i Eagle Scout award.
Bill Ralston, the immediate past Scoutmaster presided over the ceremony after the welcoming by Scoutmaster Roger Pierson.
In receiving his award, Massie was joined by his parents, Jim and Debbie Massie in front of a display of lighted candles and Scouting’s ranks, which Josh McArthur, the troop’s Assistant Senior Patrol Leader, had earlier described.
In presenting the award, Darrow Kirkpatrick, the Troop’s advisor to boys working towards Eagle, pointed out how young men like David and his fellow Eagle Scouts will enable the country to steam on through great swings of ideology, economics, and world conditions as well as internal controversies and national disasters, a comment somewhat prescient of the happenings at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon less than 48 hours later.
Massie’s mother pinned the Eagle award over his heart after which he pinned his mother with the Eagle
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