Boy Scout Memorial - Washington, D.C.
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N 38° 53.633 W 077° 02.051
18S E 323585 N 4306967
A memorial to the Boy Scouts of America stands on the site of the first Boy Scout Jamboree in 1937 in downtown Washington, D.C., USA.
Waymark Code: WM571B
Location: District of Columbia, United States
Date Posted: 11/21/2008
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member Math Teacher
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From the National Park Service's President's Park website:

The bronze statue consists of three figures. The Boy Scout represents the aspirations of all past, present, and future Scouts throughout the world. The male figure exemplifies physical, mental, and moral fitness, love of country, good citizenship, loyalty, honor, and courage. He carries a helmet, a symbol of masculine attire. The female figure symbolizes enlightenment with the love of God and fellow man, justice, freedom, and democracy. She holds the eternal flame of God's Holy Spirit.

From the Kitty Tours website:

Next to the statue is a pool which bears the inscription: "In grateful tribute to the men and women whose generosity, devotion, and leadership have brought Scouting to the nation's youth and to honor all members of the Boy Scouts of America who in days of peace and times of peril have done their duty to God and their country this memorial was authorized by the Congress of the United States and erected in recognition of the fiftieth anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America."

The Boy Scout oath is engraved on the pedestal of the statue.

Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Boy Scout Memorial

Figure Type: Human

Artist Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Donald DeLue

Date created or placed or use 'Unknown' if not known: 1964

Materials used: Bronze

Location: President's Park (White House)
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