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  2. Shelby Girl Scouts to hold American flag retirement ceremony ...

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    Flags that should be retired can be dropped off this week at the Shelby Girl Scout House, 52 E. Maxwell Dr.

  3. Flag retirement ceremony - AOL

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    Oct. 10—There will be a flag retirement ceremony for several United States flags that have flown over the community at 6 p.m. Oct. 11 between the Chris Kyle Memorial and the VA clinic, at the ...

  4. Flag retirement ceremony - AOL

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    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 ...

  5. Posting the Colors - Wikipedia

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    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. This formality is normally done at events such as graduation ceremonies and public events.

  6. Missing man table - Wikipedia

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    POW/MIA flag. A missing man table, also known as a fallen comrade table, [1] is a ceremony and memorial that is set up in military dining facilities of the United States Armed Forces and during official dining functions, in honor of fallen, missing, or imprisoned military service members. [2]

  7. American Flag Association - Wikipedia

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    Meetings followed in the autumn of that year. The formal organization of the AFA was completed at a mass meeting of all the state-based Flag Committees, held at New York City Hall, February 18, 1898. [1] The AFA was a union of the Flag Committees of all the patriotic societies in the country, and to the number of about sixty flag committees.

  8. DAR Flag Day event to include flag retirement ceremony - AOL

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    These questions will be answered when John Benning Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution conducts a flag folding demonstration and flag retirement ceremony honoring the Flag of the United ...

  9. United States Flag Code - Wikipedia

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    The flag should never touch anything physically beneath it. [9] An urban myth claimed that if the flag touched the ground, it had to be destroyed under the Flag Code; however, it has been affirmed by the American Legion and state governments that this is not the case. [10] [11] The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding or ...