Seminole District is hosting a council-wide flag retirement ceremony on Friday evening, June 14th, National Flag Day, in the City of Sanford. Though BSA has historically partnered with local VFWs and other organizations to conduct flag retirement ceremonies, our vision with this event is to conduct a larger, though still somber and reverent, BSA-hosted and community-oriented ceremony.

Our goal is to provide education to both our community as well as the less experienced units in our district and council, through the efforts of our more experienced units, as to the appropriate time to retire American flags and the proper way to do so.

This education should also allow our less experienced units to then take this knowledge with them and hold their own ceremonies local to their communities throughout the year. This event will be entirely led and conducted by our Scouts from multiple units with adult leader supervision. All Scouting Units are invited to attend and participate. Next year, and future years, our hope is to have one council-wide event with each district hosting its own ceremony.