In his time

in Scouting Thompson helped with many civic projects, including Scouting

for Food, Scouting for Toys, service projects cleaning up parks, and working

on his own Eagle project as well as the Eagle projects of his fellow Scouts.

Thompson's project was a prayer garden, with stepping stones and extensive

landscaping, at his home church of First Baptist in Peachtree City.

Taking advantage

of his training and experience in Scouting, Thompson and a friend traveled

in 2000 to Spain and France to hike the Pyrannes mountains. He had previously

been on a 10-day hiking trip at the Boy Scout facility in Philmont, N.M.,

as well as troop hikes throughout Georgia.

Thompson took

part in the 1996 National Boy Scout Jamboree. He enjoyed Camp Thunder

(the local council camp) and the Over and Under Program of the Lawhorn

Canoe Base, part of Thunder Reservation. He went in caves, canoed whitewater

rivers, fished, camped, hiked and sailed in many venues organized by the

local Boy Scouts.