Talk:Unknown Scout

Silver Buffalo Statue vs. Award
I'll attempt to add a photo I took of the actual Silver Buffalo award and citation that was presented to the Unknown Scout. The medal and citation are housed in the Gilwell Museum. --Jdurbach 20:55, 28 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Cool. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 21:11, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

The Daily Good Turn
Is there a way that we can use an illustration of Rockwell's "The Daily Good Turn" in this article? --Jdurbach (talk) 18:42, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Quotation, etc.
In the article on Scout Spirit (which is referred to in this article), there is a lengthy quotation spelling out the story of the Unknown Scout. Shouldn't that quotation be in this article on the Unknown Scout, instead of where it is now? I would prefer the version directly from the Scout Handbook (if it is still in there), but that might present a copyright problem. I have not moved anything at this point, in case there was some discussion at some point in the past that I did not see.

Also, I changed the section on "Truth" a little bit, because without an introduction it made it sound like the story is false, but then you read it and find out that while the details may be rearranged and slightly embellished, the story is basically true. In fact, I added in a quote from a source already used in the article, saying that the story is "true, at least in essence." I also changed the subheading to "Facts behind the legend" rather than "Truth." Of all the "origin stories" I have heard in my life, this one comes closer to being the truth than most! Ironically, the "truth" itself seems a little dubious to me in this case: Unless Boyce himself said there was no fog, how do we know there was no fog? The article says "climatologists" say there was no fog, but do we really believe that they recorded every instance of fog at every location in the city of London on that day in 1909? Fog can be pretty localized, and London is generally pretty foggy, isn't it? Bottom line, would it kill us to believe that there was fog? Aren't we being unnecessarily clinical about a harmless story with maybe a few details added to the truth? (Don't worry, I didn't change it, even the unnecessary repetition of the "no fog" story in both paragraphs of that section.) YiS, Neutron (talk) 21:46, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * "London is generally pretty foggy, isn't it?" - no, it was, until the passing of the Clean Air Act 1956.  More foggy details at Pea soup fog. I'm British, and I can easily get lost in London, fog or no fog! 86.159.39.99 (talk) 12:20, 8 February 2010 (UTC)