There is a Boy Scout Memorial in Washington D.C. Dave Bergstrom, Northern Lights Council Treasurer, at the BoyScout Memorial in Washington, D.C.

The memorial to the Boy Scouts of America is the only memorial in Washington to commemorate a living cause.  It was constructed at no expense to the government.
The funds were raised from each Scout unit and each donor signed a scroll that was later placed in the pedestal of the statue.

During the 50th Anniversary Year of Scouting, a proposal was made to establish the memorial on a site in Washington, D.C.  Lyndon B. Johnson, who was the Senate majority leader at the time, introduced the measure to the Senate.  The memorial was eventually unveiled in a ceremony on November 7, 1964.  The statue was accepted for the country by Associate Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark, who noted at the time that is was his fiftieth anniversary as an Eagle Scout.

The bronze statue consists of three figures:  a Boy Scout, a woman and a man.  Each figure symbolizes the idea of the great and noble forces that are an inspiring background of each Scout.

The male figure symbolizes physical, mental and moral fitness, love of country, good citizenship, loyalty, honor, courage and clean living.  He carries a helmet, a symbol of masculine attire and a live oak branch, a symbol of peace and of strength.

The female figure symbolizes enlightenment with the light of faith, love of God, high ideals, liberty, justice, freedom, democracy and love of fellow man;  symbolizing the spiritual qualities of good citizenship.  She holds high the eternal flame of God’s Holy Spirit.

The figure of the Boy Scout represents the hopes of all past, present and future Scouts around the world and the hopes of every home, church and school that all that is great and noble in the Nation’s past and present will continue to live in them and through them in many generations to come.

A small pool in front of the memorial represents the honor of those children who joined the Boy Scouts of America.

The Boy Scout Memorial is located in Lafayette Park, 15th Street NW between E Street and Constitution Avenue, Washington, D.C.