CEDAR HILL, Texas — When Stacy Mitchell II joined Scouting America in second grade, he did everything a scout can do — until he couldn’t.

Mitchell has a rare, and fatal, muscular disorder called Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. His muscles are slowly deteriorating and by 12 he had lost his ability to walk.

“There was times I was questioning if I still wanted to be a scout,” Mitchell said.

Mitchell says accomplishing anything in scouts while in a wheelchair, especially your Eagle Scout — which had long been a dream of his — felt insurmountable.

Nevertheless, Mitchell, a junior at Cedar Hill High School, was determined to try.

Earlier this spring, he had a project and a plan. Then, that plan was disrupted by brain cancer.

He was diagnosed a few months ago.

“I questioned why me,” Mitchell

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