The Eagle Story -- Boy Scouts of America Eagle Scout Court of Honor Video

Don't you know, haven't you heard? The Lord is the eternal God, the creator of the ends of the earth, he will not tire or be weary and the understanding of him no one can fathom, he gives strength to the weary and increases the power of even the weak. The young get tired and weary and the young stumble and fall but those who wait on the Lord will renew their strength they will fly with wings like

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s they will run and will not get tired they will walk and will not faint Isaiah 40:28 and 31 from the beginning of time God and man used the

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as a symbol of royalty power victory authority and courage its strength and courage has inspired men throughout the centuries the golden days of greece the eagle was a symbol of victory and supreme spiritual energy the The Greeks represented the eagle with its wings spread holding a snake in its claws.

Thus the eagle represented the proof of good over evil. The Romans saw the eagle as the symbol of victory. While the Roman legions conquered the world, they marched under the banner of the eagle with the wings spread the silver The eagle was the symbol of the republic, the Roman empire used the royal eagle as its son. The eagle was the personal emblem of the Caesars, thus representing supreme authority. The rise of Christianity brought the eagle even more

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for early Christians. The eagle was the symbol of ascension. Due to its biblical references, its powerful flight and its gaze that often seemed fixed in the heavens, on June 20, 1782, the eagle became the symbol of a new country due to the courage of the Eagles, its beauty and majesty was chosen for symbolize the United States of America and is now a prominent aspect of the emblem of the president vice president, several members of the president's cabinet and most branches of the military, in addition, several states have the eagle in their state plans and it can still be find an eagle in the American Kurt, finally, the crew of Apollo 11. chose eagle as the name for the lunar module that was going to make hi

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the words of the Eagle Scout Neil Armstrong Houston base of tranquility here the eagle is gone but those words the The world knew that man achieved the impossible by touching the words of the prophet Isaiah.

As the emblem of this country, the eagle plays a role in man's most transcendental achievements. As a result, in 1911, following traditions as old as man himself, the Boy Scouts of America chose the Eagle to symbolize the highest and what throughout hi

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the Eagle has achieved. It has been the symbol of the best in man and also serves as a symbol for boys who have risen to the highest heights of Scouting: the rank of Eagle Scout.