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Since its introduction in 1969 by the National Eagle Scout Association, the DESA has been awarded to over 2,000 Eagle Scouts. The Distinguished Eagle Scout Award (DESA) is bestowed to Eagle Scouts for nationally renowned distinguished service in their profession and to the community for a period of at least 25 years after earning the Eagle Scout rank.
Typically adult volunteers who have received the Eagle award as a youth wear a smaller patch depicting a square knot. Eagle Palms are a further recognition, awarded for completing additional tenure, leadership, and merit badge requirements. Eagle Scouts are recognized with a medal and a cloth badge that visibly recognizes the accomplishments of the Scout. The requirements include an Eagle Scout Service Project where the Scout must further demonstrate service and leadership. The list below includes notable recipients.Īs of 2014, requirements include earning at least 21 merit badges and demonstrating Scout Spirit, leadership, and service. Since it was first awarded to Arthur Rose Eldred on August 21, 1912, Eagle Scout has been earned by more than two million youth. “There’s gays, of course, and straights from the neighborhoods great, cheap food, and cheap liquor.Eagle Scout is the highest rank attainable in the Scouts BSA program division of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA).
Nearly everyone I spoke with echoed these earnest, slightly cornpone sentiments, like Bryan, a truck driver with a thick Hoosier twang who declined to give his surname. “This is like ‘Cheers.’ Everybody knows everybody,” said Eddie Beagles.
“Looking at sexuality, it's entirely changed how people view things, and the younger crowd is in tune with that.” He called Downtown Olly’s his second home, and said it does great business on holidays - its Christmas decorations are too fabulous to not have been designed by a queer person, he said, all the better for patrons whose chosen families provide much-needed support around the sometimes-difficult holiday season. "Things have changed - you see both male and female coming in here," Kempf said. (“It was either that or Chicago, and Chicago’s too big,” as he put it.) Nursing a drink at the bar in the early evening, Norm Kempf said he’d been coming to Olly’s for 20 years, when he moved up from Evansville for work. “God isn’t going to give me what I want if I keep making the wrong decisions, and I think I've had to lose everything to recognize what I have.” Everything else is just trivial.” He was separated from his life partner, “until can get his shit together or I can get him to go to rehab.” “More than anything, it's the only thing that keeps me happy. "It's my only real passion in life, to be honest,” he said.