Teenage boys haven't always existed in America.

It used to be you stopped school and started working before you hit your teenage years,

and when you got a job, you became an adult.

But in the early 1900s, that started to change.

Urbanization, the rising middle class, and child labor laws were all making its

of boys, state, and school longer.

And before long, America had its first generation of teenage boys.

Young men who didn't yet know how to be men.

Into this emptiness of adolescence?

Enter the Boy Scouts.

Today, the Boy Scout manual is the handbook for Democratic youth the world over.

More than 10 million copies have already been sold.

In 1910, the Boy Scouts of America took up the mantle of raising American boys.

And by the end of the century, it had churned out millions of them.

I, Timothy Martin, promised to do my best, to do my duties, to guard my country.

Keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.

On my own, it has its own.

The Boy Scouts had become synonymous with young men coming of age in America.

This is the sign of character.

For 51 years, Boy Scouts have been making it.

And in today's world, more than ever, character counts.

Everybody, we want to be always our day.

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