TORN WEATHERED FLAGS! Is there a policy for businesses who choose to fly our nations colors to maintain it? Does it bother you seeing it?

I see both fine and worn flags and i agree with proper care of old glory and still proud to have the red white and blue flying always

What a great Subject! I am the Scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop 626, Chartered by Sts. Francis and Anne Catholic Church in Deville , LA, we offer a flag retirement for our community every year a Saturday before Memorial Day. We put in our church bulletin that we are doing this and we usually get 10+ flags. People display flags as a sign of support but they do not realize the disrespect it shows when they let them get tattered like that. It annoys me and I have stopped and asked for the flag at banks and they usually end up having several in the closet that they changed out but did not know what to do with them. I work at the Mall and I let them know all the time that the flag they are flying needs replacing and they do. What happens is they put an all weather flag up and since no one is taking it down every day they don't pay asttention to it.

There was a pretty tattered one at the McDonalds on base for a while.


There's an organization called Stars for our Troops that takes tattered flags, properly retires them, and then distribute the flags to service members and veterans.

http://www.starsforourtroops.org

We actually go on flag inspections periodically for my American legion post 33 Morrisville Vermont. We have replaced a few. I am surprised the old vets in other communities do not do the same.

It gets my goat too Sgt Went.

There was clinic that I would drive by with their flag too close to one of their trees and our flag was all twisted in its branches. The first couple times I saw it, I gave them the benefit of the doubt...maybe they didn't see it...wind blew it back into the branches...finally I had to go in and ask them if they need some help? The poor girl at their desk looked like a deer in the headlights of a semi. I offered to help free the flag and I was even willing to come back with an axe and cut their tree down? They have recovered their flag but have sadly decided to not fly it instead of trimming their tree.

We sometimes go around and collect them locally when possible for flag burning ceremonies with Boy Scouts and you'd be surprised at some of the reactions. People think we're telling them they're not patriotic, people want to know what authority we have, They want to know if we will be furnishing them with a replacement, you get the deer in the headlights, crickets chirping face, etc.

We simple say that we notice that your flag looks old or in disrepair and if and when you decide to replace it would you please donate it to us.

Hey, we try.

I have suggested to some that they donate those flags to the VFW and Boy Scouts for proper retirement.

When I see it I want to go buy them a new flag and have them put it up immediately and retire the old one.

it bothered me enough to START my own flag .manufacturing company...i rip flags down ALL.of the time and replace them...including mil spec flags...http://www.fbsind.com

it bothered me enough to START my own flag .manufacturing company...i rip flags down ALL.of the time and replace them...