When he was a young man, Kazimierz Piechowski, a Polish Boy Scout, embodied the “A Scout is Brave” point of the Scout Law while facing imminent death at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
An icon of the American West, the longtime president of Coca-Cola and a man who died in the sinking of the Lusitania — all have Scout camps named for them.
Officially, it’s the 2017 AdvoCare Texas Kickoff (moved to New Orleans because of Hurricane Harvey). Unofficially, I’m calling it the 2017 Eagle Scout Bowl.
NASA announced its 2017 astronaut class — 12 men and women from 18,000 applicants. It shouldn’t come a surprise that one, Raja Chari, is an Eagle Scout.