Editing Eagle Scout (section)

==Impact==
The National Eagle Scout Association (NESA) researched the total [[Man-hour|volunteer hours]] of the Eagle service projects ever done and it came to a total of more than 100 million hours of service. Each year, new Eagle Scouts add more than three million more hours.<ref name="wsj"/> Eagle Scouts completed about 9.5&nbsp;million hours in 2011.<ref name="Scouting.org"/>

January 31 is officially recognized by NESA as National Eagle Scout Day in recognition of [[Arthur Rose Eldred|Eldred]]'s Board of Review he sat in 1912.  The important date of an Eagle Scout's Board of Review is the officially recognized date a Scout achieves the rank of Eagle Scout regardless of the date of their Eagle [[Court of Honor (Scouting)|Court of Honor]].<ref name="wsj" />