Respectfully Removing “Old Glory” From Service

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June 29, 2023

By Landry Brewer

Elk City’s City Hall provides a special box to respectfully dispose of a special national symbol that’s become threadbare.

The American Legion wants American flags to be retired with dignity, so the veterans organization formally adopted the Unserviceable Flag Ceremony in 1937 to retire American flags.

This protocol dictates destroying tattered, faded, and worn flags by burning them in a formal ceremony.

In 2011 the national Retire Your Unserviceable Old Glory project was launched to collect worn flags and facilitate their prescribed disposal by local Scouts or members of The American Legion or Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Old Glory collection bins were placed in communities across the country for citizens to deposit their unserviceable flags.

One is beside the City Hall parking lot.

If you’ve got a ragged old flag that needs to be disposed of, place it in the Old Glory Box beside the north end of Elk City’s City Hall parking lot, and it will be retired by local citizens with the dignity befitting this important national symbol.

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