Eagle Scout Influenced My Life

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In October 2015, I stood beside my close friend on a podium ready to receive my Eagle Scout Award. To me, this period marked both an end and a beginning in life. The Eagle Scout is the highest rank in the Boy Scout program, so it was the end of a long period of working hard for a program that had largely shaped my life up until that point. Yet it came with an oath to continue those values throughout the rest of my life. While this moment marked the pinnacle of my scouting career, it was really the journey along the way that helped shape me as a person. For some people, it is an event or a moment in their life that causes a change in a person. With scouts, it was the long journey that was able to instill the scouting values made by the