Scouts are Cool
In this NY Times Photo by Christopher Berkey of Pearl Jam at the Bonneroo Music Festival, Eddie Vedder is wearing a Scout shirt.
Scouts attempt World Record
From The News and Observer:
For a brief moment Saturday afternoon, the bright blue Orange County sky was obscured by more than 1,500 pancakes.The Orange District of the Boy Scouts of America had just attempted to set the world record for most pancakes flipped at one time. And given that an unscientific search (we Googled) shows no one else has ever tried, the Scouts might have actually done it.
Eagle Scout reacts with calm
from Washington Post coverage of the Virginia Tech massacre. One of the students in the first classroom where the shootings occurred was concerned about the gunman coming back.
Whispering and trying to compose himself, [Trey] Perkins, [20, of Yorktown, Va., a sophomore studying mechanical engineering, and] an Eagle Scout, said he told Derek and the female student to keep their feet on the door in case the gunman returned.
Perkins said he went around the room, tending to the wounded students. A student named Garrett was shot in both legs. Perkins wrapped his gray pullover sweater around Garrett’s right leg.
Perkins used Garrett’s tank top to wrap the other leg. Perkins saw a sweat shirt on a desk and covered the girl with the mouth wound.
“He knew exactly what he was doing,” Perkins said of the gunman. “I have no idea why he did what he decided to do. I just can’t say how lucky I am to have made it.”