Flag disposal question

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Flag disposal question

Posted: 5/15/2001 11:07:43 AM EDT

Last year I put up two flags in front of my house (state & U.S.) and being there all year they have become rather worn and tattered. Time for replacement. What is the proper disposal of said flags? It just seems weird throwing the U.S. flag in the trash I guess. Suggestions? Flame-on.

Nuckles.

Posted: 5/15/2001 11:11:33 AM EDT

[#1]

i think they are supposed to be burned ceremoniously. folded up in the triangle and put into a fire? not sure

steve

Posted: 5/15/2001 11:12:11 AM EDT

[#2]

I believe you can bury it. Burning it is also accepted for a tattered flag. I think.

Someone may know more.

Posted: 5/15/2001 11:14:03 AM EDT

[#3]

[url]http://usmilitary.about.com/careers/usmilitary/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.legion.org%2Fflagdisp.htm[/url]

Posted: 5/15/2001 11:20:36 AM EDT

[#4]

[url]http://www.icss.com/usflag/us.code36.html[/url]

This is from the section titled [i]Respect for the Flag[/i] It is in subsection [i]k[/i]

[i]The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning. [/i]

Posted: 5/15/2001 11:28:24 AM EDT

[#5]

take them to the local vfw. they will dispose of it

Posted: 5/16/2001 8:33:13 AM EDT

[#6]

I know my Boy Scout Troop is always looking for flags to be retired. Call your local council office and let the young boys have this honor. I remember everytime I have retired a flag. Its something that will stay with you forever, specially the first time you see it happen

Posted: 5/16/2001 9:44:12 AM EDT

[#7]

From what I remember, you are supposed to cut the blue area away from the stripes, and then separate the stripes. You can then burn it, because it is no longer the American flag. At least that's what I was taught in the Army.

Posted: 5/16/2001 9:53:41 AM EDT

[#8]

This Place I use to work for would Replace Their
flags once a month and when they had a big Pile
of U.S. Flags laying on the floor They would toss the hole pile in the Trash .

Rob

Posted: 5/16/2001 10:01:37 AM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
This Place I use to work for would Replace Their
flags once a month and when they had a big Pile
of U.S. Flags laying on the floor They would toss the hole pile in the Trash .

Rob

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Criminal penalties for certain acts of desecration to the flag were contained in Title 18 of the United States Code prior to 1989. The Supreme Court decision in Texas v. Johnson; June 21, 1989, held the statute unconstitutional. This statute was amended when the Flag Protection Act of 1989 (Oct. 28, 1989) imposed a fine and/or up to I year in prison for knowingly mutilating, defacing, physically defiling, maintaining on the floor or trampling upon any flag of the United States. The Flag Protection Act of 1989 was struck down by the Supreme Court decision, United States vs. Eichman, decided on June 11, 1990.

Hunter out

Posted: 5/16/2001 10:41:49 AM EDT

[#10]

IMHO I couldn't bring myself to burn a US flag in any condition. Just the way I was raised...

Posted: 5/16/2001 11:18:37 AM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
IMHO I couldn't bring myself to burn a US flag in any condition. Just the way I was raised...

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This is what promted me to ask. Trash? burn? None of it "feels right". I AM SO CONFUSED!

Great ideas guys, but I feel like I am back where I started.

Nuckles.

Posted: 5/16/2001 11:35:51 AM EDT

[#12]

it's good to see that,to some of us,it still matters.mmk

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