The 2016 Michigan International Camporee is now history!

The 2016 Michigan International Camporee is now history!

Check out the International Scouts at the Michigan International Camp-o-ree 2016 http://www.micamporee.org/ The Michigan International Camporee (MIC) is the largest Council Run Multinational Scouting Event in North America. Held every four years since 1997 MIC creates international scouting friendships and "Arrow Ambassadors." The story of the Golden Arrow from the 3rd World Scout Jamboree The farewell ceremony on the last day, 12 August, 1929, consisted of a march with flags and banners past the royal box with the Chief Scout and other officers, ending in a Wheel of Friendship formed by the Scouts, with 21 spokes symbolic for the 21 years of Scouting. While burying a hatchet in a cask of gilded wooden arrows, Baden-Powell addressed the gathered Scouts. Here is the hatchet of war, of enmity, of bad feeling, which I now bury in Arrowe. From all corners of the world you came to the call of brotherhood and to Arrowe. Now I send you forth to your homelands bearing the sign of peace, good-will and fellowship to all your fellow men. From now on in Scouting the symbol of peace and goodwill is a golden arrow. Carry that arrow on and on, so that all may know of the brotherhood of men.Then he sent the golden arrows as peace symbols to the North, South, West, and East, through the spokes of the Wheel of Friendship.I want you all to go back from here to your countries in different parts of the world with a new idea in your minds of having brothers in every country... Go forth from here as ambassadors of goodwill and friendship. Every one of you Scouts, no matter how young or small, can spread a good word about this country and those whom you have met here. Try to make yourselves better Scouts than ever; try to help other boys, especially the poorer boys, to be happy, healthy, and helpful citizens like yourselves. And now, farewell, goodbye, God Bless you all. Lord Baden=Powell

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