LA Daily News - Reluctant Scout gets hero’s medal
LA Daily News - Reluctant Scout gets hero’s medal
Some things you never forget, Barbara Wright says, smiling. Like the day six years ago that she drove her 9-year-old son, William, to his first Boy Scout meeting.
“He cried all the way, didn’t want to go.”
A month later, her son led 40 of his fellow Scouts from Troop 104 in Mission Hills in the Pledge of Allegiance.
A month after that he was teaching his mom CPR.
“His confidence just blossomed,” Barbara said.
A few years later, when Will was 11, he balked at Barbara’s idea to sign him up for Junior Lifeguard training. The kid wasn’t crazy about getting up at dawn, running five miles, and spending hours in the ocean every day to earn his certification, but he did it.
Good thing. There’s a young woman in Japan right now who owes her life to the boy who cried on his way to his first Boy Scout meeting and hated all those cold morning swims in the ocean.