The Mercer County Office of Veteran Services is set to conduct an official flag decommissioning ceremony.
The ceremony is scheduled for 6 p.m. June 12 at Veterans Park, 2206 Kuser Road, Hamilton Township.
Each year, the Office of Veteran Services partners with local veterans from the American Legion Post 31 and the Hamilton Township Patriotic Committee to hold the decommissioning, also known as flag retirement.
American flags that have become tattered, soiled or are otherwise “no longer fit for display” will be burned in a dignified manner in a pit in the ground during the ceremony and the flames will eventually be doused by firefighters from the Nottingham Fire Company of Hamilton.
Veteran Services has collected thousands of flags eligible for retirement for the past several months from American Legion Post 31, private homes, the veterans section of Greenwood Cemetery in Hamilton, and government offices.
Organizations that wish to have an American flag properly disposed of should bring the flag to any Mercer County office, including County Connection on Route 33 in Hamilton; the Mercer County Park Commission Offices or Ranger Headquarters; the Mercer County Veterans Home on Hamilton Avenue in Hamilton; or the McDade Administration Building at 640 South Broad St., Trenton.
A rain date is set for 6 p.m. June 13.
More information is online at mercercounty.org.
