Talk:Young American Award

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Details[edit]

Working to clarify the founding date of 1954 vs. 1968. --Jdurbach 17:21, 7 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

So- is this a BSA award or a DOJ award that the BSA promotes? Do you have a reference for the DOJ? --Gadget850 ( Ed) 17:23, 7 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

According to Mike Walton, the DOJ started it in 1954 and the BSA took it over in 1966. [1] Here are some answers. [2] --Gadget850 ( Ed) 19:14, 7 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Walton also states that YAA recipients can wear the Silver Award knot. [3] --Gadget850 ( Ed) 19:18, 7 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at the photo in Scouting, the national medal is silver. [4] --Gadget850 ( Ed) 11:53, 8 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Todo[edit]

Better image- all the photos show this as a silver medal suspended from a ribbon
Information on knot

--Gadget850 ( Ed) 11:36, 10 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done --— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk - 16:54, 2 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Numbers[edit]

1968–2005: 173 [5]
2006: 5 [6]
2007: 5 [7]

Total: 183 --— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk - 11:11, 2 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

2009[edit]

This award has been suspended and will not be presented in 2009. Don't know why, National is kind of mum about the reason. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.219.221.24 (talk) 00:23, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

New discussions go on the bottom

When you added that to the article, you deleted a whole paragraph. Really need a reference for that, preferably one with an explanation. The BSA site has nothing on this. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 00:33, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And looking at the list, skipping years is nothing new. It could be as simple as no really qualified candidates. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 01:13, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]