06/15/2026
❤️🤍💙Flag Retirement Ceremony 🇺🇸 American Legion ❤️🤍💙.
Greenvale and Steve had the honor of using our aerial lift truck to display the flag for The American Legion SLO County 🇺🇸.
⭐️ The American Legion’s flag retirement ceremony is a solemn and deeply respectful ritual dedicated to the dignified disposal of unserviceable United States flags. Historically formalized in 1937, this official event brings together veterans, legionnaires, and youth groups to pay a final tribute to worn, torn, or faded banners that are no longer fit for display. During the ceremony, officials inspect the flags to declare them unserviceable before a selected banner is placed onto a sacred fire pit, symbolizing the collective retirement of all the flags present. As the flags are consumed by the flames, attendees stand at attention, render a hand salute, and recite the Pledge of Allegiance. The ceremony concludes with a chaplain’s prayer, and the remaining ashes are later collected and buried, ensuring that the symbol of the nation is treated with honor from its first deployment to its final rest ❤️🤍💙