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BURN FURIOUS DETERMINATION WITHIN YOUR HEART AND MIND By Richard Mabey Jr.

In early September of 1965, I had just turned 12 years old and start ed the seventh grade at Chapel Hill School in Lincoln Park. I was look ing forward to being in a school setting where the students changed classes, every hour. My social life centered upon the Youth Group at First Reformed Church and Boy Scout Troop 170 of Saint An drew’s Episcopal Church. Little did I know it at the time, but my life sud denly changed that early September when I awoke with a very sore throat. Mom took me to our fam ily doctor. Although well meaning, he didn’t take my sore throat quite as se riously as he should have. Within a few days, my sore throat worsened, and Mom took me back to our family doctor and I was diagnosed with strep throat. Sadly, my strep throat led to full blown Rheumatic Fever. Mom took me to see a wonderful young cardiologist, who had just opened up his medical practice. Dr. Martin Rosenthal immediately had me go to the hospital. This was in early October of 1965. I spent three weeks in the Barnert Hospital, in Paterson. I remember Dad brought me a book that I had just begun reading, simply titled, “Eagle Scout” by Wilfred McCormick. To say I read that book is an understatement. In those three weeks, I read this book, from cover to cover, three or four times, during my stay at Barnert Hospital. For nearly one year of my life, from early October of 1965 till late August of 1966, my feet never touched the ground. I was to have two more long-term hospital stays. I had a very wonderful tutor. I was a very serious student and did well on the tests that my tutor gave me. But my real passion lied in read ing and rereading my favorite book, “Eagle Scout.” I would dream of being an Eagle Scout. During my year of battling Rheumatic Fever, a fury burnt in the deepest chambers of my heart, to one day become an Eagle Scout. In September of 1966, I started the eighth grade and returned to Boy Scout Troop 170. At that time, in the midst of the baby boomers, there were well over 50 boys in Troop 170. I was the most unlikely of all to have the physical strength and endurance to earn the coveted rank of Eagle Scout. I failed the tests for the Swimming Merit Badge three summers in a row. My outlook for

becoming an Eagle Scout looked rather grim. I prayed and prayed ev ery night, for years during my time of being a scout in Troop 170, to become an Eagle Scout. As if the odds were a million to one, a good friend told me about swimming classes at the Paterson YMCA. To make a long story short, I took the swimming classes and became a fairly good swim mer. Enough to earn the Swimming and Lifesaving Merit Badges. The only two merit badges I still needed to earn scouting’s highest rank, that of Eagle Scout. During my struggles of earning the Swimming Merit Badge, I kept a burn ing desire in my heart. I prayed and prayed and prayed for God to bless me with the strength and stamina to earn the Swim

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On the sixth of Septem ber of 1997, my beloved father turned 70. The day before, I turned 44. Early September of 1997 brought a very endearing and heart moving moment to my life. For I began to see just how much the words of the Scout Law and the Scout Oath really meant to my dad. Dad had served as Scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop 170 nearly 30 years, from 1965 till 1994. It was in 1997, that my cousin, Raymond Kem merer served as an Assis tant Scoutmaster of a Boy Scout Troop in a small town in Pennsylvania’s Le high Valley. During the Summer of 1997, my Uncle Pete and Aunt Alice hosted a big family reunion at the Knothe Farm in Randolph, New Jersey. There, Dad and Cousin Raymond became reacquainted and talked and talked about scouting. Before we all went home that day, Cousin Raymond invited Dad to give a talk at his scout troop. So, after a couple of fol low up telephone calls, be

fourth or fifth time. As I sat in the chair next to the window, Dad sat at this lit tle table in the hotel room, rewriting his speech. We took a break at about 5:30 or so and walked to a little restaurant in the cen ter of town. There, in that little eatery, Dad confided in me that he was nervous about his upcoming talk. The Court of Honor was to begin at 8:00. So, Dad and I had just enough time to eat our supper, walk the block and a half back to our motel room and then change into our old scout uniforms. To say that my dad knocked the ball out of the park, in giving his talk on scouting, is an under statement. Dad touched and moved the hearts of everyone in that meeting hall, when he gave his talk on what scouting meant to him. I nearly cried. It occurred to me then, just how much my beloved father loved scouting. How his motto of “it’s better to teach a boy the straight and narrow, then to rehabilitate

A cherished photograph of my dear father that I took in our motel room, on the very day that Dad gave his last talk on scouting.

a wayward man” rang so true that night. My father believed in every single word of the Scout Law and the Scout Oath. He lived it in every aspect of his life. It’s hard to believe that was over 18 years ago, when Dad gave his last talk on what scouting meant to him. I loved my father with all of my heart. I dearly miss him. If there are any words I can share with you, good reader, it’s this. Love the ones dear to your heart. Tell them. Forgive people when they do you wrong. Forgive, forgive, forgive and forgive again. None of us are go ing to live forever on this earth. None of us have a guarantee for tomorrow. Hold dearly this truth, that love is the most powerful force in the universe. Richard Mabey Jr. is a freelance writer. He has recently had two books pub lished. He currently hosts a YouTube Channel entitled, “Richard Mabey Pres ents.” Richard may be contacted at richardmabeyjr@gmail.com.

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