Originally Posted by
SASless
As to retiring a flag....burning in a reverent and dignified manner is the approved method.
Interesting that it is burnt. I wonder if that is why protestors burn your flag in what is clearly intended as undignified?
In UK we lay our flags up. Sqn, Regimental, Service and other flags are placed usually in a church and many are very worn. They are usually where a unit was last in action or based and serve as a focal point for reunions or even solitary remembrance. There are of course many other places such as St Clement's Danes for the RAF, in museuma or in Catherderals. Threadbare where they have been in contact with the ground over many years, shot and holed where they have been in action.
One White Ensign was used by the German forces to honour dead sailors in Guernsey. It was then 'stolen' and hidden until after the war and finally laid to rest in St John's Church.