Here is a photo showing Ernest Hammaker (on the left) and three other unknown gentlemen at the Boy Scout Memorial in Washington D.C. Hammaker Brothers of Thurmont was involved in the creation and installation of this memorial. I went there with my father several times when he was cutting the inscription in the stone surrounding the reflecting pool. We still have a few small pieces of the pink granite somewhere. Ernest had us create a sign for Windy Woods out of a large section of the pink granite, but it is long gone now having been damaged by a snow plow. The memorial is located in behind the White House to the East of the Elipse along 15th Street NW.
Here is some information about the Boy Scout Memorial form Wikipedia"
The sculpture sits at the location of the 1937 National Scout Jamboree, the first jamboree. It was dedicated on November 7, 1964 and accepted by Associate Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark who celebrated his 50th anniversary of being an Eagle Scout on that day.
The sculpture consists of three bronze figures: a Boy Scout in the center wearing a uniform stepping forward and carrying a walking stick in his left hand. Flanking him are two larger allegorical figures of a man and woman. They represent "American Manhood and Womanhood and the ideals they will pass onto the youth." To the Boy Scout's right side is the male figure, nearly nude, who carries a bundle of leaves and drapery in his left arm. Part of the drapery blows across his middle as he strides forward with his right leg. To the Scout's left side is the female figure who holds a torch in her left hand that has a gold-colored flame. Her left hand extends slightly and her palm is facing upward and she strides forward on her right leg. The three figures are mounted on a hexagonal-shaped base (62 x 92 x 98 in.) and in front of the sculpture is a circular pool of water.
A panel on the base is inscribed with the Scout Oath:
On my honor I, Will do my best
To do my duty, To God & my
Country and to obey the Scout law to
Help other people At all times
To keep myself Physically strong
Mentally awake And morallyStraight
The rim of the pool is inscribed:
This memorial was authorized by the Congress of the United States and directed in recognition of the fiftieth anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America in grateful tribute to the men and women whose generosity devotion and leadership have brought Scouting to the nation's youth and to honor all members of the Boy Scouts of America who in days of peace and times of peril have their duty to God and their country.
