I have an American Flag that is tattered and torn, she has been flown for many years at my house and now she needs to be retired. Are there and Scout troops, Explores, VFW Post or any other organizations that would like to have my flag that will conduct a proper retirement ceremony? If so, send me a note and I will send you the flag.

I am sure there are many, however you can properly retire it yourself very easily.

Step 1 - build a fire
Step 2 - place flag in fire, recite the pledge of allegiance
Step 3 - bury the ashes

unless its nylon. That get's messy.

Good on you sir for considering the VFW.

My son's Cub Scouts troop collects them and does a big ceremony once or twice a year.

Contact your local Boy Scout troops. They will do it. When I was a Scout, we did the proper flag retirement procedures all the time. I think the VFW does it also.

Fair point.

SherpaPhil, let know if they are looking for one and I'll send it to you.

Keep it away from Dan.

You might want to check with them, my sons old Scout Master told me not to long ago they are only allowed to take cloth flags now.

If none of that is close to you, check Ace Hardware. My local Ace has a drop off and they claim they dispose of them properly.

I burn mine in a 55 gallon drum -never touches the ground and I stand and watch while it burns and give thanks to those who defended it -

They still take them. Two weeks ago they did a ceremony. I was surprised as all that black smoke was billowing out of the fire, but nobody seemed to take issue with it.

Lol. Poor Dan. How long has it been now.

There are flag boxes in the Flower Moimd fire stati9ioja

That is what the first post says.

drunk post of the year.

You took the words right out of my mouth.

I'm sending it to SherpaPhil next week.

I had to write a paper on Flag Duty when I was in ROTC at SFA. From what I remember researching in the US Flag Code the procedure is as follows:

Cut or tear the flag where the blue field meets the stripes along the long axis of the flag the length of the flag.
Cut or tear the remaining part where the blue field meets the stripes along the shorter axis.
You now have three pieces of cloth. Dispose of as you wish. Burning is acceptable and often considered most respectful.

Done this a few times.

When we voted the other day at the fire station I noticed they had a stack of them all folded up to be retired. There was a sign saying you could drop them off there.