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American Legion Post 265 in Fort Walton Beach holds their annual flag retirement ceremony.
Flags that should be retired can be dropped off this week at the Shelby Girl Scout House, 52 E. Maxwell Dr.
May 30—Life Scout Xander Hirsch, of Troop 624 of Orwigsburg, held a flag retirement ceremony at the AMVETS Post 180 in Pottsville as the second and final part of his Eagle Scout project. Hirsch ...
Full text of United States Code, Title 4, Chapter 1, available at Cornell University Law School. "Tattered: Investigation of an American Icon" is a documentary photo essay, investigating the principle identity, misuse, commodification and desecration of the American flag in the context of the U.S. Flag Code. “God for Harry! England and Saint ...
The practice is also done by the Girl Scouts of the United States of America, as well as the Boy Scouts of America. Posting the colors requires that a color guard team move the colors (usually the American flag , the state flag , the service flag , and the unit flag ) from a carried position and placed into a stand.
The Casing of the Colors is a traditional ceremony held by United States Army commands, brigades and regiments as well as United States Marine Corps units. Each of these units have unique flags referred to as " colors " which are carried by the color guards to represent the unit at military ceremonies.
The ceremonies honored the traditions of each participating organization, with retiring American flags collected by American Legion Post 53.
The national flag of the United States, often referred to as the American flag or the U.S. flag, consists of thirteen horizontal stripes, alternating red and white, with a blue rectangle in the canton bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows, where rows of six stars alternate with rows of five stars.