POTTSTOWN PA – A formal flag retirement ceremony will be conducted Sunday (June 6, 2010) at 1 p.m. at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Memorial Park, at Manatawny and King streets, Pottstown PA, Pottsgrove American Legion Post Adjutant William Worrell announced Wednesday (June 2). The event is open to the public.

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In addition to the thousands of American flags that will be burned, a 40-foot-by-60-foot garrison flag also is expected to be retired, Worrell said. That flag is held by everyone in attendance and all its stripes are cut off one at a time.

The program is being sponsored by local units of the Vietnam Veterans of America, the Boy Scouts of America, and the Elks Club. The scouts will have the responsibility of cutting the blue field from each flag. Blue fields are then burned in one pit, and the stripes in another.

The Pottsgrove post honor guard also will participate.

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