What makes your wrangler Patriotic?
10-19-2009, 06:30 AM
#22
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On November 11th, Veterans Day for those of you who don't keep track of
that, I will once again use my Jeep to pull the flat bed trailer that bears the
flags we will retire this year. We (Boy Scouts) have been doing this for the
past sixteen years now, and this is the fifth year I've been in charge. It's a
public event, attended by several hundred folks. Thus far, we've laid to rest
9.874 flags. I will have to take a picture of my Jeep, with all of those flags
(probably 500-1000) properly folded and prepared to be laid on the firelay.
That's how I show my American pride ... A few pic's from past retirements ...
Boy Scouts will build the firelay the weekend prior to the event ...
Laying a folded flag on the trailer. We'll have about 75-100 people arrive as
soon as school lets out (yes, Oklahoma has school on Veterans Day) to help
fold all of the flags.
Yes, we fold the big flags, too. Usually we have a dozen of so of this size ...
We pick one flag to fly to represent all of the flags to be retired. This
particular year, we had a 13-star flag to retire ...
One year, it was my honor to retire one of the flags rescued from the Murrah
Building (the Oklahoma City Federal Building) as a Wood Badge ticket item
(that will mean something to the Scouters out there) ...
The Order of the Arrow lights the fire ...
A local high school Navy ROTC outfit (also a Venture Crew) will present a
21-gun salute ...
Immediately followed by the playing of Silver Taps. If that doesn't bring a tear
to your eye -- well, it will ...
My son (Curtis) and his Scoutmaster give the flags a final salute ...
The weekend after the retirement, Scouts and Scouters of all ages will return
to recover any of the flag material that didn't burn (grommets, etc), and to
bury the ashes of the fire. The flag materials that did not burn will be buried
beneath the flag at a local cemetery that is dedicated to veterans
(appropriately named Arlington, but not that one).
that, I will once again use my Jeep to pull the flat bed trailer that bears the
flags we will retire this year. We (Boy Scouts) have been doing this for the
past sixteen years now, and this is the fifth year I've been in charge. It's a
public event, attended by several hundred folks. Thus far, we've laid to rest
9.874 flags. I will have to take a picture of my Jeep, with all of those flags
(probably 500-1000) properly folded and prepared to be laid on the firelay.
That's how I show my American pride ... A few pic's from past retirements ...
Boy Scouts will build the firelay the weekend prior to the event ...
Laying a folded flag on the trailer. We'll have about 75-100 people arrive as
soon as school lets out (yes, Oklahoma has school on Veterans Day) to help
fold all of the flags.
Yes, we fold the big flags, too. Usually we have a dozen of so of this size ...
We pick one flag to fly to represent all of the flags to be retired. This
particular year, we had a 13-star flag to retire ...
One year, it was my honor to retire one of the flags rescued from the Murrah
Building (the Oklahoma City Federal Building) as a Wood Badge ticket item
(that will mean something to the Scouters out there) ...
The Order of the Arrow lights the fire ...
A local high school Navy ROTC outfit (also a Venture Crew) will present a
21-gun salute ...
Immediately followed by the playing of Silver Taps. If that doesn't bring a tear
to your eye -- well, it will ...
My son (Curtis) and his Scoutmaster give the flags a final salute ...
The weekend after the retirement, Scouts and Scouters of all ages will return
to recover any of the flag material that didn't burn (grommets, etc), and to
bury the ashes of the fire. The flag materials that did not burn will be buried
beneath the flag at a local cemetery that is dedicated to veterans
(appropriately named Arlington, but not that one).
10-19-2009, 06:50 AM
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Interesting ritual. I've never heard of that before. I always assumed that the burning of a flag was meant as a protest of sorts. This puts an entirely different spin on it.
10-19-2009, 07:22 AM
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After flags have been used, some become torn, faded, or soiled, the only proper way to 'retire' them is to burn them. This does not mean to take a full flag and just toss it into a fire. There is a proper way to go about this and one way is the way described above, the other is to cut the flag into four sections (cut with scissors, tearing is seen as a barbaric form and is frowned on) then incinerate it.
10-19-2009, 02:56 PM
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Thought I would share and would like opinions on weather or not it would hold up to Highway speeds and what the antenna will do.
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10-19-2009, 07:20 PM
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One of my earliest mods was to remove the "X" and replace it with something more appropriate.
The "wrangler unlimited" came off later, which is how she rides today.
The "wrangler unlimited" came off later, which is how she rides today.
