Scouters, Youth Groups, and Parents!
FLAG RETIREMENT: Watch for the new date @ September in 2023!!
FLAG FOLDING OPPORTUNITIES ARE AVAILABLE THROUGHOUT THE YEAR!!
Contact the Post at Contact@VFW1177.ORG to schedule a hour (or more) of Flag folding!! We'll teach your young folks the proper way to fold the Flag and then invite them to come out in the Fall for the formal retirement. Again we'll work with you to schedule this event to meet your date/time needs!!
For Planning Purposes:
Loudoun County VFW Post 1177 invites you to bring your young Americans out to our Post to participate
in a flag folding event (we schedule these to meet YOUR needs).
Later in the year, VFW Post 1177 would
then like to invite you to bring your young Americans out to participate
in our annual Formal American Flag Retirement Ceremony usually held @Fall.
We'll conduct the flag retirement ceremony on a Saturday at 9am in partnership with the Loudoun County Fire & Training Center located at 16600 Courage Ct., in Leesburg VA.
(Photo below of one of our very first ceremonies!)
Participants will learn to properly fold the American Flag and how to properly retire the flag by burning. If you have old American Flags, please bring them out and we will retire them with honor.
Each participant will be awarded with a special remembrance of their participation in the formal Retirement ceremony.
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defending and honoring our nation's most iconic symbol of freedom. Whether
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