AKPilot
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Just gotta share it . . .
My 9-year old son, who's a cub scout, received the Boy Scout Heroism Medal on Friday from National HQs. They presented it too him at the Western Alaska Executive Counsel meeting. But, the neatest thing, that had my tears welling up, is that they gave him a two-minute standing ovation!!!
The short story is that he saved his 6-year old sister this past summer when our canoe tipped over on a glacier river. While mom got stranded on the opposite side of the river, and I floated down stream, he grabbed onto his sister's lifevest and got them both to shore - then "buddy-huddled" to conserve heat.
My 9-year old son, who's a cub scout, received the Boy Scout Heroism Medal on Friday from National HQs. They presented it too him at the Western Alaska Executive Counsel meeting. But, the neatest thing, that had my tears welling up, is that they gave him a two-minute standing ovation!!!
The short story is that he saved his 6-year old sister this past summer when our canoe tipped over on a glacier river. While mom got stranded on the opposite side of the river, and I floated down stream, he grabbed onto his sister's lifevest and got them both to shore - then "buddy-huddled" to conserve heat.