Hoss was in charge of conducting the last Court of Honor as part of the communications merit badge. In his planning, he decided that he wanted to do a flag retirement ceremony as part of the program. My parent's neighbor had a flag, as you can see, extremely tattered and torn, still flying on their pole. With the help of my dad, Hoss went over to his house and politely asked if he could retire his flag as part of a ceremony for Boy Scouts. We weren’t sure if this would offend the neighbor or not, however he was more than grateful and said he already had a new flag, but just hadn’t found the time to replace it. When we think of flag etiquette, a tattered flag should never be flown. The ceremony was so beautiful, so patriotic, and so humbling to watch.
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