If you're looking for a ceremony for 'disposing' of a worn-out us
FLAGS, CALL:
     National Flag Foundation
     (800) 615-1776
or write:
     National Flag Foundation
     Flag Plaza
     Pittsburgh, PA  15219-3630
Ask them to send you their "National Flag Facts # 2"
They also have the following phamplets available:
     # 10 - About the National Flag Foundation
     # 15 - the Flag At Half Staff -- Mourning
     # 16 - Displaying the Flag on a Movable Object:
                  Uniforms and Vehicles
     # 17 - Display of the Flag in a Church or Public Auditorium
     # 18 - Flag Folding
     # 19 - Illumination of the US Flag for Display After Sunset
Obviously, as Scouts and Scouters, we probably know the contents of
these publications.  However, after obrtaining them, I found some
interesting thingsa I didn't know (and I have studied the US flag and
it's intriguing history).
Also, you may want to consider joing the NFF.  It's only $17.76 per
year which entitles you to receive their quarterly publication "the
Standard Bearer."  This quarter's issue contains the foloowing
articles:
     (Cover) Admiral Robert E. Peary and the "North Pole Flag"     
     Opinions and Observations - A Few Minutes With Andy Rooney
     Flag Facts - Illuminating the Flag
     Star-Spangled Stories - Jeffrey St. John
     Flags of America (Alamo, Lord Baltimore, and Guilford Courthouse)
          (pictures and descriptions)
     NFF Special Feature - Marquis de Lafayette and A Flag That Never
          Comes Down
     Ask NFF! - Interesting and Unusual Flag Questions
          (this quarter's question:  What is the 'Flag Code')
     NFF's Three-Month Flag Calendar - Important Dates in Flag History
It is interesting to note that the NFF has a "Flag Plaza - Scout
Center' at their headquarters in Pittsburgh.  It is a "gift to this
and future generations of American Youth."
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