Flag Retirement Ceremony - 2nd Year Webelos of Pack 3271

This past Tuesday evening we held a flag retirement ceremony at the small campsite behind our home, Our pack meets at the school and we cannot make a fire there so we held it at my home.

It went well. The scouts only had one rehearsal and a few were absent the week before and did not know to wear their uniforms but they were all respectful of the ceremony and I was proud of them.

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• flag
• retirement
• ceremony
• 2nd
• year
• webelos
• pack
• 3271
• artisan

[getnick77]

Thanks for posting, I remember my days as a scout and we used to retire the flag with the local American Legion this brought back fond memories and a tear to my eye thanks

[ArtisanTony]

@getnick77 This was my first flag retirement so it was pretty neat being a den leader and doing this for the first time.

[getnick77]

@ArtisanTony I have several flags in a closet that are due for retirement from being outside my house I'll be delivering them to the legion tomorrow properly folded and covered by a paper sack thanks again you have a new sub 

[ArtisanTony]

@getnick77 We have several more to do also at our next camp fire meeting. We are going to try to do a better job at getting everyone in uniform and lines memorized. Thanks for your comments.

[TheBeeperman]

Thank you for teaching our young men the good stuff. It occured to me that I have seen our flag burned by some really vile people in my life. But never with such reverence and respect. This does my heart good. Please thank those young men for us.

[ArtisanTony]

@TheBeeperman Thanks for the comment.

[ArtisanTony]

@hickok45 Thanks for the comment.

[hickok45]

Thanks for this reminder on how to properly retire a flag.

[ArtisanTony]

@tnoutdoors9 Thanks! I have a similar story but was not that close to Eagle. I also regret not staying in scouting and hope Alex will continue. He will as long as I can influence him :) This will be my last year as Alex's den leader before he moves on to Boy Scouts and I have been wanting to do a flag retirement ceremony for a while. We are going to do another one at our year end campfire.

[tnoutdoors9]

Great job! They seemed very sincere about it. I was in Scouts for a number of years (dropped out just short of Eagle, HUGE REGRET), and do not recall ever doing this. That includes a couple of years of working with a Webelos group.