Nighthawk’s World Brotherhood Campfire Ashes has been an inspiration for many long years in my life. Starting out in the 1980’s I was given some campfire ashes from a Boulder Dam Area Council’s Fall 1988 Camporee I went to at Kimball Scout Reservation at Camp Potosi near Las Vegas, NV. The contributor presented me with the list that he had of Campfire ashes and where they come from. The list comprised with over one thousands entries’. I have carried this pedigree of ashes ever since, entering them in every campfire I have been to from Camporees, Scout Expos, Summer Camps, Troop Campouts, my Order of the Arrow Vigil campfire, National Camp School Trainings, to my Wood Badge Training.

After many long years of investigating I have found many Scouts paths that have crossed during our travels in the Western United States. With careful investigation I have concluded that finally I could join several of those lists into one with over 6000 ceremonies.

As a young boy several years ago I got the opportunity to raise and lower the United States Flag and the Arizona Flag each day when I was in school. This instilled the ideas of patriotism into my daily life. Today I am proud to fly the United States Flag every day at home.  When it comes time our flags must be retired respectfully when they become tattered and soiled. For years I have been vigilant in properly retiring them in a flag retirement ceremony. During this ceremony I have added the campfire ashes of old from Nighthawk’s World Brotherhood Campfire Ashes to each flag retirement campfire.