Re: Looking for Flag "Retirement" Ceremonies
Hilding Holroyd (hilding@CATFISH.OCPT.CCUR.COM)
Tue, 11 Jan 1994 10:46:52 -0500
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> I am looking for information regarding appropriate retirement of the
> U.S. Flag when it becomes too worn to display with dignity. I have searched
> in our university library for a governmental"flag code", through
> congressional laws, etc regarding the flag, and other areas, and have
> come up with very little.
> Our troop has created it's own ceremony, and has used it twice over
> the past few years. However, we'd like some new ideas.
> Any sources for such a ceremony, or have you invented your own? If so,
> could you post it?
> Thanks in advance -
> Michael D. Erickson
> ASM (soon to be SM) Troop 638
> Wichita, KS
Michael, there was an article in SCOUTING Magazine a few months back
about how one troop did this. Sorry I do not remember the month.
The ceremonies I have been involved in have been quite simple. After a
little introductory speech by the Camp or Program Director (this was
done at camp, in case you couldn't tell [smile!]), four staff members
walked in with the one in the lead carrying the flag to be burned. It
was still folded in tri-corn fashion. We walked in front of the campfire
and unfolded the flag - reverse of folding the flag. Each staff member
then took a corner, stars toward the fire, and walked backwards carrying
the stretched out flag over the campfire. It was then lowered onto the
fire. We kind-of flipped the corners over the top, once the flag hit the
fire. This was to ensure that the entire flag was burned. The honor guard
then was dismissed. Simple (KISS) but effective.
Hilding Holroyd Eagle Class '68
Jersey Shore Council O.A.: Japeechin Lodge (Brotherhood)
Whispering Pine District "I used to be a FOX!!" NE-IV-54
Adv. Chairman, Troop 250 31 year veteran and still going ..
Jackson/Lakewood, NJ
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