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Posted in Editorial, Flag Facts, Flag Videos, History on Jul 17th, 2008
Yesterday I received an email through the contact page asking: Can you tell me if there is a ceremonial procedure for carrying the flag from one end of a room to another for posting prior to the start of a meeting? I sent an answer to CD, but my response bounced right back to me. [...]
I lost count of the Memorial Day stories that came into my feed reader, but I “starred” about two dozen that combined the words “Boy Scouts, “flags,” and “Memorial Day.” I thought I’d try to count the numbers of Scouts (Girl Scouts, too), and the number of veterans graves that the Scouts decorated with flags [...]
Posted in Flag Photos on Apr 3rd, 2008
Last week I asked for readers to send photos from flag retirement ceremonies. Our friend Dave Jung sent these photos from B.S.A. Troop 331, in the Gerald R. Ford Council from Grand Rapids, Michigan. The photos were taken during their January “Polar Bear Campout” at Gerber BSA Camp. Dave reported that as the heat rose [...]
Posted in History on Mar 26th, 2008
Flag Retirement Ceremony conducted by VFW Post 8573 in Sattler, Texas. Flag retirement ceremonies are most often conducted by veterans organizations such as the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion, or the Boy Scouts. But of course, any group or individual can retire a flag. The whole point of retiring a flag is [...]
Posted in Flags in the News, Information, Scouting on Mar 7th, 2008
How do you quantify the well-being of a community? Here’s one way. The Canyon Lake Times Guardian What do you call a large group of birds sighted near Canyon Lake? A Flock of Eagles!!!! That is exactly what was witnessed on Saturday, March 3, 2008, at a special rare event of an Eight Eagles Scout [...]
