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In a message dated 9/5/00 9:39:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
BMccrea@LANSING.CC.MI.US writes:

<< was delighted to see that the recent revision of the Music and Bugling
 merit badge book returned to the way I learned the use of the bugle calls
 during flag lowering many years ago when I was troop bugler. When lowering
 the flag, after calling the Scouts to Attention, the leader called the
 Scouts to Parade Rest and the bugler played Retreat. Then the Scouts were
 called to Attention and Right Hand Salute and To The Colors was played as
 the flag was lowered. >>

Bruce,

When I was a scout, we went to a camp with multiple flag pole on the parade
field. At Retreat (before diner), the camp was called to Attention for camp
report then brought to Parade Rest. Retreat was played during the lowering of
the State and Camp flags. The camp was then brought back to Attention and
Right Hand Salute as the US flag was lowered to To the Colors. Back then
(early 70's), we still matched to and from assemblies.

David Gottshall
Assistant Scoutmaster
Troop 502
Woburn, MA

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