{"id":91,"date":"2021-05-03T01:12:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T01:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nylegion1009.org\/?page_id=91"},"modified":"2025-08-15T04:18:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T04:18:25","slug":"u-s-flag-retirement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nylegion1009.org\/index.php\/american-legion-yorktown-post-1009\/programs\/u-s-flag-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Flag Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt has-text-color has-black-color has-medium-font-size\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">&#8220;The United States flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.&#8221; (U.S. Flag Code) <a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nylegion1009.org\/index.php\/american-legion-yorktown-post-1009\/programs\/u-s-flag-retirement\/\"><a> <\/a><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:20px\">Our Yorktown Post accepts all worn, torn, or damaged US flags 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in our &#8216;Flag Drop Box&#8217; in front of our Post Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:24px\">In 2024, since restarting this program in 2013, our Yorktown Post with the Yorktown Fire Department has collected and ceremonially retired by fire over <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">12,000 worn and torn U.S. flags<\/mark>.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a>&#8220;<em>The United States flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.<\/em>&#8221;       <em>(U.S. Flag Code)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236,"parent":22,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-91","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylegion1009.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylegion1009.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylegion1009.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylegion1009.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylegion1009.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/nylegion1009.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"https:\/\/nylegion1009.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91\/revisions\/883"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylegion1009.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylegion1009.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylegion1009.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}