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Flag retirement ceremonies

Eloise Ogden/MDN Tech. Sgt. Lester Cape, center left, of the 5th Civil Engineer Squadron at Minot Air Force Base, presents the installation U.S. flag from Minot AFB to Ric Montoya, center right, of the Minot Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #753, during a flag retirement ceremony at the VFW Club on Flag Day on Friday. The flag retirement ceremony is an official ceremony performed to properly dispose of the flag. The VFW Color Guard and about 20 airmen from Minot AFB participated in the ceremony.
Eloise Ogden/MDN Shirley Hoelscher, right, of Berthold, presents a U.S. flag to Gary Siewert, adjutant of the William G. Carroll American Legion Post #26 of Minot, at a flag retirement ceremony at the old armory parking lot in Minot on Friday, Flag Day. Twelve veterans and Hoelscher, a spouse, presented flags representing the 13 folds of the flag. Richard Reuer, of the American Legion Post, was master of ceremonies.

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