{"id":279,"date":"2008-05-27T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=279"},"modified":"2011-06-30T16:01:15","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T21:01:15","slug":"four-generations-of-eagle-scouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"Four Generations of Eagle Scouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/melrosetroop68.org\/uploaded_images\/4genEagle-725281.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/melrosetroop68.org\/uploaded_images\/4genEagle-725266.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>There is an article in <span class=\"org\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Arizona Republic<\/span><\/span><span class=\"org\"> that is a great news story about Boy Scouting. Most families are happy to boast about having one Eagle Scout. How would you like to be part of a family with four generations of living Eagle Scouts? You can read about it at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/news\/articles\/2008\/05\/27\/20080527eaglescouts0527.html\">http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/news\/articles\/2008\/05\/27\/20080527eaglescouts0527.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here is a portion of the article&#8230;<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br \/>\nThomas Shelton Boggess Jr. met President Herbert Hoover for a brief photo shoot in 1931, but his visit today with President Bush today means much more to him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">That&#8217;s because Thomas Jr., 96 and in failing health, will be among four generations of Eagle Scouts in his family meeting the president when he arrives at Sky Harbor International Airport.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">Thomas  Jr., who lives in a <a class=\"iAs\" style=\"border-bottom: 0.075em solid darkgreen ! important; font-weight: normal ! important; font-size: 100% ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; padding-bottom: 1px ! important; color: darkgreen ! important; background-color: transparent ! important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/news\/articles\/2008\/05\/27\/20080527eaglescouts0527.html#\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix<\/a> assisted-living center, fought back tears Monday when asked what it means for him to meet the president with four generations of his family. <span id=\"articleFlex1\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\nOAS_AD('ArticleFlex_1')\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gcirm.azcentral.gcion.com\/RealMedia\/.ads\/adstream_lx.ads\/www.azcentral.com\/news\/articles\/2008\/05\/27\/20080527eaglescouts0527.html\/1742347568\/ArticleFlex_1\/OasDefault\/turtle_bay_estancia_news_300A\/estancia300.gif\/34326632346538613438336337386330?_RM_EMPTY_\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8220;I&#8217;m very proud of him,&#8221; Thomas Jr. said of his great-grandson, Thomas Shelton Boggess V, 13, known to his family as Shelton. &#8220;He did it especially for me. He wasn&#8217;t selfish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">Shelton, of Flagstaff, said he organized a crew of 15 boys who built a fence around a church as an Eagle Scout project. Shelton said he knew the clock was ticking for his great-grandfather.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">His father, Thomas Shelton Boggess IV, 41, a Flagstaff home builder, said his son expedited the badge process. It&#8217;s more typical for a boy to achieve the Eagle Scout rank at 15 or 16.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8220;It makes me feel very special and important to our family,&#8221; said Shelton, an eighth-grader at Northland Preparatory Academy. &#8220;I knew it was a great honor for him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">His great-grandfather said, &#8220;All the gold in Fort Knox wouldn&#8217;t compare to what it meant.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an article in The Arizona Republic that is a great news story about Boy Scouting. Most families are happy to boast about having one Eagle Scout. How would you like to be part of a family with four generations of living Eagle Scouts? You can read about it at http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/news\/articles\/2008\/05\/27\/20080527eaglescouts0527.html Here is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eagle","category-scouting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2560,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/2560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}