On Friday evening, June 14, local American Legion and VFW members, all on with members of Boy Scout Troop #145, honorably retired several flags. After a brief and somber ceremony, the flags were respectfully destroyed by burning.
Pictured right: American Legion member Ted Hee salutes as the first flag is honorably destroyed by burning.
“A Flag may be a flimsy bit of printed gauze, or a beautiful banner of finest silk. Its intrinsic value may be trifling or great; but its real value is beyond price, for it is a precious symbol of all that we and our comrades have worked for and lived for, and died for a free Nation of free men, true to the faith of the past, devoted to the ideals and practice of Justice, Freedom and Democracy.”
“Let these faded Flags of our Country be retired and destroyed with respectful and honorable rites and their places be taken by bright new Flags of the same size and kind, and let no grave of our soldier or sailor dead be unhonored and unmarked.”
