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To: Dealer who wrote (42728)	10/1/2001 9:37:55 PM
From: Dealer	Respond to of 65232

How to despose of an old flag: WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) -- With many people flying new flags after the terrorist attacks, the question of how to dispose of old ones has surfaced. The Stamp Defiance chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution held a flag retirement ceremony near the USS North Carolina battleship on Saturday. Chapter Regent Mrs. Samuel Ashe Flint -- a 68-year-old widow who prefers to go by her husband's name -- helped create the ceremony last year. "Many people just don't know there is a proper way to get rid of flags," Flint said. "Many people don't know that you just can't throw it away in a trash can." The chapter collects worn out flags throughout the year. During the ceremony, the flags are cut up -- first the blue square, then each the 13 stripes -- and the remains burned. "At first I didn't like it," said Alan Anderson, assistant leader of Boy Scout troop 288, which assisted in the ceremony. "But then I didn't know that this was the proper way to dispose of it."