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There is a favorite Troop 116 story, now a troop legend, about the July 1991 Eagle Board of Review for Bryan Wood, Troop 116 Eagle Scout #95. During the examination, the council reviewer used a fairly common tactic that these guest reviewers sometimes employ and asked a sort of “trick” question, intended to catch the Eagle candidate off guard. The reviewer asked Bryan what was on the tombstone of Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of the world Scouting movement, who is buried in Africa. The answer he was looking for is the fact that on the tombstone is the trail sign meaning "end of the trail" or "I have gone home." It is a circle with a dot. We always try to prep the Scouts for the possibility of these kinds of trivia questions, but Bryan’s response stopped the show. To the total surprise of everyone, he responded that he would answer the question by showing them a picture, and he pulled out of his neatly pressed uniform shirt pocket a photograph of himself standing beside Baden-Powell’s grave in Kenya.

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There is a favorite Troop 116 story, now a troop legend, about the July 1991 Eagle Board of Review for Bryan Wood, Troop 116 Eagle Scout #95. During the examination, the council reviewer used a fairly common tactic that these guest reviewers sometimes employ and asked a sort of “trick” question, intended to catch the Eagle candidate off guard. The reviewer asked Bryan what was on the tombstone of Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of the world Scouting movement, who is buried in Africa. The answer he was looking for is the fact that on the tombstone is the trail sign meaning "end of the trail" or "I have gone home." It is a circle with a dot. We always try to prep the Scouts for the possibility of these kinds of trivia questions, but Bryan’s response stopped the show. To the total surprise of everyone, he responded that he would answer the question by showing them a picture, and he pulled out of his neatly pressed uniform shirt pocket a photograph of himself standing beside Baden-Powell’s grave in Kenya.