At Last a Good Boy Scout Story
-By Warner Todd Huston
Out of Georgia comes a heart warmer about the Boy Scouts for a change. Instead of radical gays attacking this noble organization, instead of extremist left-wing politicians trying to make a name for themselves by attacking one of America’s finest youth organizations, we have a story that makes you smile. And you can bet it won’t make national news.
Rodrigo and Rosa Cano moved to the United States in 1980. A decade or so later Rosa gave birth to David who the proud parents enrolled in a local Boy Scouts troop when he reached his tenth year. They hoped that young David could further help them assimilate in their new home as young David brought home his Scouting experiences.
Young David set a goal for himself as a Scout: to win every merit badge and every Eagle Palm award that the Boy Scouts offered. And, finally at age 17, David became only the third Boy Scout ever to win all 121 Boy Scout merit badges. Cano earned all 20 Eagle Palms, as well.
“I did it for the experience,” said Cano, a member of Boy Scout Troop 1776 in east Cobb. “With every merit badge, there’s a purpose. You’ll learn something new with every single badge. Some are life skills and others are hobbies that will be with you for the rest of your life.”
According to Marietta Daily Journal, Cano had to fulfill the requirements for all 121 merit badges as well as the 1,674 additional requirements to win the 20 Eagle Palms. An Eagle Palm is awarded for every five merit badges earned.
This exceptional young man is not only a focused Eagle Scout, either. He is heavily engaged in his school, too.
Cano is a junior at Blessed Trinity Catholic High School in Roswell. He has been a member of the school’s football and soccer teams, school band, Model United Nations and is a National Honor Society member. Someday, he hopes to become a surgeon.
“I’ve really enjoyed the Scouting program,” Cano said. “I’ve picked up a lot of friends and really had the time of my life being in this organization.”
Cano’s proud parents seem to be the sort of immigrant that every natural born American should appreciate.
“It did help us to bridge between being Hispanics into the American society in a way that Scouts offers minority boys – whether black, Chinese or Hispanic – the American culture,” Rodrigo Cano said. “This is something that is very near and dear to many American families.”
What a great story all around. An exceptional boy coming to manhood through the Boy Scouts and an immigrant family proud of their son, patriotic for their new country, and seriously engaged in their community.
Sadly, this wonderful story won’t see the light of day on the national scene even though it should.
Congratulations to David Cano and his family. And another great success story had by the Boy Scouts, one of the best youth organizations in the country.
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Posted by Warner Todd Huston on April 8, 2009 5:57 am
» Filed Under Heroes, Journalistic Malpractice, Liberal Media/Bias, Liberal World, Patriotism, liberalism
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Well done! You are a fine young American and I am proud of you. All 20 Eagle Palms????
WOW!
“Cano had to fulfill the requirements for all 121 merit badges as well as the 1,674 additional requirements to win the 20 Eagle Palms.” That is a tremendous amount of work. Good for you David.
I’ve linked to your article in the headlines section of Demoralized enough Yet?
Quote 1 … This is a response to the Uri Bezmenov video, which reveals the efforts of the KGB to demoralize America.
Lets define demoralization apart from the obvious of removing morals. Demoralization symptoms in physiological terms has been defined as: feelings of being ineffective, inadequacy at solving problems, and inability to control one’s life. Demoralized individuals become discouraged, frustrated, ashamed or unhappy about the difficulties of carrying out their normal routines. Such feelings are a frequent consequence of chronic anxiety disorders or depression. In real life situations alcoholics face demoralization; Or somebody facing accusations by child protective service with the fear that if they don’t agree with CPS they wont see their children regardless of the truth about their relationship with them – in short they are forced to live a lie. Demoralization takes away a real and solid foundation to build on and replaces it with sand, people’s lives slowly come falling down.
Quote 2 … Uri Bezmenov believes reversal of demoralization takes time, that is once a person no longer has a foundation of truth to run his life and operates in the lie and a manner dependent of assistance that the person can not longer discern truth. The person will continue in that manner and society will not recover until an new generation replaces it. Victims are condemned in the hopeless situation of living a lie that does not produce benefits.
My life tells me he is wrong on this belief. You see, I have seen broken and demoralized people suffering from feelings of being ineffective, inadequacy, discouraged, frustrated, ashamed or unhappy, depression – let me add hopeless and joyless. Let me also add people so demoralized that they ended up in many cases homeless. I’ve been blessed to witness the personal miracles of these people getting their life put back together, their remoralization.