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AMERICAN LEGION POST 1 FLAG RETIREMENT CEREMONY
2008 Flag Retirement Ceremony
Post 1 is proud to sponsor an annual flag retirement ceremony. This ceremony is important as it provides a way to respectfully and properly retire our American flag. After the Commander's speech quote are pictures taken from this very important event. We were honored with Chapter 4 of Rolling Thunder.--"Comrades, we have presented here these Flags of our Country which have been inspected and judged as unserviceable. They have reached their present state in a proper service of tribute, memory and love.
--A Flag may be a flimsy bit of printed gauze or a beautiful banner of finest silk. Its intrinsic value may be trifling or great; but is real value is beyond price, for it is a precious symbol of all that we and our comrades have worked for and lived for, and died for a free nation of free men and women, true to the faith of the past, devoted to the ideals and practice of Justice, Freedom and Democracy.
--Let these faded Flags of our Country be retired and destroyed with respectful and honorable rites and their places be taken by bright new Flags of the same size and kind, and let no grave of our soldier, sailor, or airman dead be unhonored and unmarked."
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