The 66th annual Scoutmasters Camporee will be held on February 13-15, 2026 
Theme for 2026: A Tribute to First Responders
Chief:  Adam Ramirez

This is the website for the Scoutmasters Camporee Committee of the South Florida Council, Scouting America, Boy Scouts of America.

2025 Memorial Day Parade and Ceremony 
Monday, May 26, 2025 
Honor Our Veterans 
At the Davie Memorial Day Parade and Ceremony

Memorial Day Parade and Ceremony to be held in the Town of Davie on Monday, May 26, 2025. The Parade begins at 10:15 a.m. and will proceed east on Orange Drive beginning at the Davie Fire Administration (6905 Orange Drive) and ends at the Bergeron Rodeo Grounds (4271 Davie Road, Davie, FL, 33314). We welcome organizations, school clubs/bands, and ROTC units to participate. Veterans, Scouts, and Military please wear your uniform. RSVP at memorial_day_rsvp. A Memorial Service in the Rodeo Arena will begin after the Parade at 11 a.m.

The Ceremony begins promptly at 11:00 a.m. Please be seated beforehand. Flags will be available prior to the ceremony for $1.00. During the ceremony flags (purchased or brought) can be presented to be placed on Veterans' graves. For additional information, please contact: Adam Ramirez (Memorial Day Chairman and 2026 Chief) at smcc.us/contact or 305-234-7633.

Flyer: 2025 Memorial Day Flyer

Parade route image 

The order that created Memorial Day 
HEADQUARTERS GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC 
General Orders No.11, WASHINGTON, D.C., May 5, 1868

The 30th day of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village, and hamlet church-yard in the land. In this observance no form of ceremony is prescribed, but posts and comrades will in their own way arrange such fitting services and testimonials of respect as circumstances may permit.

We are organized, comrades, as our regulations tell us, for the purpose among other things, "of preserving and strengthening those kind and fraternal feelings which have bound together the soldiers, sailors, and marines who united to suppress the late rebellion." What can aid more to assure this result than cherishing tenderly the memory of our heroic dead, who made their breasts a barricade between our country and its foes? Their soldier lives were the reveille of freedom to a race in chains, and their deaths the tattoo of rebellious tyranny in arms. We should guard their graves with sacred vigilance. All that the consecrated wealth and taste of the nation can add to their adornment and security is but a fitting tribute to the memory of her slain defenders. Let no wanton foot tread rudely on such hallowed grounds. Let pleasant paths invite the coming and going of reverent visitors and fond mourners. Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten as a people the cost of a free and undivided republic.

If other eyes grow dull, other hands slack, and other hearts cold in the solemn trust, ours shall keep it well as long as the light and warmth of life remain to us.

Let us, then, at the time appointed gather around their sacred remains and garland the passionless mounds above them with the choicest flowers of spring-time; let us raise above them the dear old flag they saved from his honor; let us in this solemn presence renew our pledges to aid and assist those whom they have left among us a sacred charge upon a nation's gratitude, the soldier's and sailor's widow and orphan.

It is the purpose of the Commander-in-Chief to inaugurate this observance with the hope that it will be kept up from year to year, while a survivor of the war remains to honor the memory of his departed comrades. He earnestly desires the public press to lend its friendly aid in bringing to the notice of comrades in all parts of the country in time for simultaneous compliance therewith.

Department commanders will use efforts to make this order effective.

By order of:
JOHN A. LOGAN, Commander-in-Chief
N.P. CHIPMAN, Adjutant General
Official: WM. T. COLLINS, A.A.G.

Aerial photo from the 2012 camporee: