Scouting, Volume 57, Number 7, September 1969 Page: 34
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SCOUT MEMORIES. This diorama depicting Norman Rockwell's 1931 Boy Scout calendar paint-
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34 Museum and Visitors Center, Washington, D.C.
LEGACY OF
A FATHER
To his son who has just received his
Life Scout Award:
What can I give my son that he has
not already returned to me tenfold? We
have given each other love, understand-
ing, and fellowship. We have shared so
much together, my son and I.
We shared the joys of the High Sierra
hikes along the John Muir Trail. We
climbed peak after peak, enjoying the
mammoth redwoods and the wonders of
nature. We saw mountain streams cas-
cading, hurrying on their way to the
sea. Along the banks of these waterways
we saw marmot, the deer, the bear, and
the other inhabitants of the forest. We
enjoyed hiking in the sunshine and
endured hiking in the rain, sleet, and
snow. Some nights we were too tired
and wet to cook our evening meal and
tumbled into our tents hoping that to-
morrow the sun would shine again. My
son and I have sat at night on the
highest mountain and watched the celes-
tial bodies in all their splendor. The
stars were so close and so clear that we
felt we were very near to heaven. These
things we have shared, my son and I.
Together we have experienced the
wonderful adventure of a canoeing trip
down the mighty Colorado River. It was
a feeling of wanderlust to paddle or drift
with the current, watching the ever-
changing scenery. We spent the night on
a sandbar in the middle of the river,
eager to rest aching muscles seldom
used. As my son and I lay side by side
in our sleeping bags, we listened to the
sounds of the desert night life. We
imagined the hardships suffered by those
pioneers of this vast, desolate land. The
next morning we were up at first light,
eager to resume our adventure on the
water, which ended all too soon at
Imperial Dam. These things we have
shared, my son and I.
My son and I have shared many,
many more adventures with Troop 223.
There were the winter snow camps in
Angeles National Forest, desert camp-
out at Joshua National Monument, El
Camino Real Heritage Hike beginning
at the Mexican border, summer camps
at Camp Chawanakee in the High
Sierras and Emerald Bay at Catalina,
beach camps at Carpenteria, and others
too numerous to mention. Each camp-
out was different, yet there was a same-
ness in each one—the welding of a bond
that could never be separated. It mat-
tered little where we were—at the ocean,
the desert, or on a snowclad peak, for
at no other place in all the world can a
dawn come up so clear, or the silence
of a moonlit night bring God so very
near, when it's filled with love and un-
derstanding between a father and his
son.
All these things we have shared, my
son and I.
-JOHN W. WYLIE
Sec.-Treas., Troop 223
Burbank, Calif.
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