Local’s Eagle Scout project in honor of those who served
Eagle Scout candidate Dominic Thom, right, and Libby Boy Scout Troop 1971 member Hayden Caudill work at a grave site in the City of Libby Cemetery Friday, May 9, 2025. Thom's Eagle Scout project was to refurbish headstones that had sunk lower than ground level over the years. (Scott Shindledecker/The Western News)
Eagle Scout candidate Dominic Thom, left, and Libby Boy Scout Troop 1971 members work at a grave site in the City of Libby Cemetary Friday, May 9, 2025. Thom's Eagle Scout project was to refurbish headstones that had sunk lower than ground level over the years. (Scott Shindledecker/The Western News)
A family legacy of service to their country led a young man from Libby to take on a particularly ambitious Eagle Scout project.
Since members of the Thom family arrived here in the 1600s from Europe, they have answered the call to take up arms in defense of it.
Seventeen-year-old Dominic Thom, a junior at Libby Middle High School, was first a member of Cub Scout Pack 4925 at the age of six before he joined Libby’s Boy Scout Troop 1971. As he considered what he would do for his penultimate project, his mother, Ashley, had an idea.
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