The Flags have found a taker... was Re: [Tir-Medoin] Off Topic request for assistance with American FlagRetiring

Tressa tressarhiannon at yahoo.com
Thu May 18 13:32:06 PDT 2006


Thanks for the info Karen!  My boss had called them,
but she called again and spoke to someone who knew the
information..she'll take them this afternoon!

Tressa

--- Karen A Renker <gemhem at hot.rr.com> wrote:

> The VFW post 1820 on Airport Road in Temple is
> preparing for their flag
> burning ceremony right now.  Normally it occurs on
> Flag Day, but this year
> the ceremony will be at 4pm on Saturday June 17th. 
> The flags can be dropped
> off at the post any time between now and April 17th.
>  Karen Van de Iris
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tressa" <tressarhiannon at yahoo.com>
> To: "Tir Medoin List" <tir-medoin at ansteorra.org>
> Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 1:29 PM
> Subject: [Tir-Medoin] Off Topic request for
> assistance with American
> FlagRetiring
> 
> 
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > The lady that I am working for right now has some
> > tattered American flags that need retiring..She
> has
> > called the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, VFW, SPJST,
> > American Legion, National Guard, the VA, basically
> > anywhere we can think of to get someone to retire
> > these flags in a respectfull manner.  To date all
> > these organizations could care less about helping
> her.
> >
> > My questions are two:
> >
> > 1. Can anyone recommend to me someone to contact
> that
> > would do this?
> >
> > 2. It is possible for veterans to retire a flag in
> a
> > private ceremony, if we can't find anyone to do
> this
> > for her, would anyone be willing to help me retire
> > these symbols in a private ceremony? I am out of
> the
> > city limits, so unless there is a burn ban, it is
> > possible to have a campfire at my place.
> >
> > It seems very pitiful to me that so many
> organizations
> > patriotism is failing and I would like to see
> these
> > flags disposed of in a proper manner.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tressa
> >
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