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Flag retirement

By News-Argus Staff
Published in News on June 18, 2012 1:46 PM

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News-Argus/MICHAEL BETTS

Members of Boy Scout Troop 8 salute the flag while it is lowered to be retired during the troop's flag retirement ceremony at New Hope United Methodist Church. Troop 8 performed the proper ceremony in retiring a flag, which is to ceremoniously burn it. The troop retired 1,502 flags on Saturday.