Boy Scout Troop 1001

The inscription around the rim of the pool adjacent to the monument reads:

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 done their duty to God and their country this memorial was authorized by the Congress of the United States and erected in recognition of the fiftieth anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America.

The memorial lies on the east side of President's Park South, 

Links:

• National Park Service description of the memorial.

• George Wireman's article on the company that erected the monument.