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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheNickelGuy, post: 8182715, member: 20201&quot;]<span style="color: #006600"><i><font size="6"><b>Lets Salute The Scouts!</b></font></i></span></p><p><font size="6"><br /></font></p><p><font size="6"><b>1962 Girl Scouts of the USA Heraldic Art Medal</b></font></p><p>So-Called Half Dollar</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1430856[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1430860[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Girl Scouting in the United States of America began on March 12, 1912, when Juliette &quot;Daisy&quot; Gordon Low organized the first Girl Guide troop meeting of 18 girls in Savannah, Georgia. It has since grown to 3.7 million members. Low, who had met Baden-Powell in London while she was living in the United Kingdom, dreamed of giving the United States and the world &quot;something for all the girls.&quot;</p><p>She envisioned an organization that would bring girls out of their homes to serve their communities, experience the out-of-doors, and have the opportunity to develop &quot;self-reliance and resourcefulness.&quot; From its inception, the Girl Scouts has been organized and run exclusively by women, for girls and women.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1430862[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>My favorite thing about the Girl Scouts is the Thin Mint Cookies. When I drove a School Bus I always had several connections and I bought a lot of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1430863[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><font size="6"><b>1960 Boy Scouts Of America Heraldic Art Medal</b></font></p><p>So-Called Half Dollar</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1430859[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1430861[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This medal seems to command a premium when offered for sale over at least half of the others in this 60 &quot;Regular Issue&quot; sterling medals, and 7 &quot;Occasional Piece&quot; sterling silver medals. There were 67 medals in all in a set. I think this is my 29th different issue in my collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Foundation of Scouting</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1430857[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Scout Oath: 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.</p><p><br /></p><p>Scout Law: A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.</p><p><br /></p><p>Scout Mission: The mission of the Boy Scouts of America is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Scout Law.</p><p><br /></p><p>While president, Theodore Roosevelt established a relationship with James West, who would become BSA’s first Chief Scout Executive. In 1902, Roosevelt appointed West to the Board of Pension Appeals in the Department of the Interior.</p><p>When the Boy Scouts of America was founded in 1910, Roosevelt became an ardent booster of the organization.</p><p>Roosevelt also served as the first council commissioner of Nassau County Council. As a former president, he was elected honorary vice president of the Boy Scouts of America and through his active involvement in the BSA, Roosevelt was the only man ever to be designated as Chief Scout Citizen.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1430867[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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