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What Happened to Flag Day?

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Ridgewood NJ, Flag Day is today, and while many may remember staking miniature American flags into our yards as kids, as the years pass by, our interest in celebrating the holiday has significantly diminished – so we must ask ourselves, “What Happened to Flag Day?”

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Volunteers Place Flags on the Graves of Veterans at Valleau Cemetery in Ridgewood 

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Ridgewood NJ, Members of Project Interact at Ridgewood High School, joined  American Legion Post 53, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts and volunteers from all over Bergen County placed American flags at the graves of veterans at Valleau Cemetery in Ridgewood on May 8,2021. Bob Paoli, commander of American Legion Post 53 played Taps .

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Ridgewood Train Station Flag Box

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December 18,2015
the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Does any of our readers know, there is a place to dispose of old tattered or worn U.S. flags at the train station?
There is a box located to the left of the main entrance to the inside of the station house.

Ridgewood NJ, Old flags that are no longer suitable for display are usually burned. There’s no law requiring that all flags be disposed of by burning, but the U.S. Code states that burning is preferable. Snopes.com says this is to prevent the remnants of the flag from ending up in places like garbage heaps. Flag disposal ceremonies are regularly held by organizations such as the American Legion, the Boy Scouts and Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Read more : https://www.ehow.com/how_2045581_dispose-american-flag.html