Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire I dunno how many legally homeless Eagle Scouts there are....

awesome story - the kid will make a difference in this world and you helped it

I've been asking my wife to start fostering for some time now but she is resistant to it. I think she is afraid we'll become to attached and want to adopt.

My son has scheduled his eagle project for August.

I'd spring for some help on that graduation gift. Need an address.

Good on you Birdy--and I know what you mean by it being a team effort.

Over the years I've had a bunch of young guys show up on the door step needing help in one form or another. You do what you can.

One of them is now a pharmasist and another is a heavy duty mechanic--families of their own and doing good. I can't take any credit for that--or else I'd have to take responsibility for the 2 that wound up as drug addicts living in a ditch.

You win some and you lose some

so what do you do in your community where kids from troubled families show up at your place? is it church?

Well done! Very well done!

a kid like that needs some local press - someone should call the newspaper or TV to do a story on him - once people hear his story, something good will come from it.

OUTSTANDING!

Congrats to the young man, and those who helped guide him.

Good job.

I guess Hilary is right it does take a village to raise a child.

Well hey, that came out of left field, tho' with this crowd I should have expected it

I took him to the mall a couple of weeks back and it was the FIRST time he had ever looked for shoes/sneaks without just buying the cheapest pair possible. Some of us are pitching in for his Senior Prom and Graduation.

This summer he's working for the Boy Scouts at camp so will have some disposable income to buy much-needed clothes. One problem has been him giving so much of what he gets to his scattered relatives. I ain't making this up; he originally started the candy sale thing in the first place to help pay for the funeral costs of a little sister born with a serious birth defect.

I'll PM all interested folks this evening with my address. I am interested in hearing any gift ideas. Something he wouldn't ordinarily buy for himself.

Thanks,
Birdwatcher

I had six young men who could have fit your description go through our home. One turned out OK, five turned out to be some of the finest men you would want to know.

They all had reason to become whiners but not a one of them did.

I have been where you are a few times, and still am. But, I do not want to detract from your story. It is a good thing you do to help an innocent that has no others means.

I think those of us that have been through this, helping others, somehow end up reaping more benefit from knowing these folks then we provide to them. Friends for life, are priceless.

I owe you a beer or nine Birdwatcher


and please tell the other team members I appreciate their efforts as well. But most of all please tell that young man how his story has brightened the life of an old redneck all the way up in Alaska.
Don't even know the lad and I'm so very, very proud of him.

hope that young man has a bright future, and I can like his odds

amazing the resiliency of the human spirit


he provides quite the contrast to that young woman that was gonna sue her parents a while back


contrasts, she makes this kid look even better

Bingo Fireball! What a great idea.


alright Birdman, ball's in your court, what does this kid need or want?

we ain't got much time to get this gig done.

Good on you. I've seen similar examples over the years and those real pillars of society were most often those that had to really sacrifice to help out.

I wish that young man the best.

We got thirty days to graduation, how about two weeks after tonight I tally up all funds collected and we decide.

One of the most useful things might be a driving school course.

Spring Break this is what happened....

We needed a copy of his birth certificate, the only picture ID he had was his school ID but his school records in the district go back 12 years so that was enough along with the picture ID to get a photocopy of said certificate.

We needed his birth certificate and high school ID to get him a social security card. He already had a number, just no card so after the records office downtown we drove over to the social security office.

We needed the birth certificate, the social security card, the picture ID and also me to sign-off that he was who he said he was to get him a state-issued ID. So next stop was DPS. He had NEVER had a picture ID other than his school ID card before.

He has driven off and on since he was nine, but not at all regular. 18 years old and he doesn't have a driver's license, a basic necessity for any American. The fastest and most guaranteed hassle-free way to get a license here is driving school. Beside which our cars are both manual transmissions.

Probably the most USEFUL gift we could get him is driving school, IIRC $300-$400. I'll find out.

Other than that, I'm open to ideas.

Birdwatcher

Here as well.....

Well said.

Fortunately, acts of kindness of all sorts are common enough around the 'Fire, that I can tell this story without embarassment or affectation.

please send me your address via pm Birdy for contributing to this young man's grad gift.


obliged


would surprise me none to see the funds end up being enough to get the driving course and maybe something else.

all I can tell you for certain is that bunch of these rednecked, ignorant hillbillies flung far and wide that post here, have some pretty decent hearts within them

I like fun


this should be fun!

You and your lovely bride are good people, Mike.

Ed