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Brody Skillicorn of Missoula holds a worn flag that's ready for disposal.
Flames consume an old American Flag as Legionnaire Ken Gellatly looks on.
Kade Sampson, Jim Phennicie and Brody Skillicron prepare to add flags to the fires during the Flag Disposal ceremony.
Brody Skillicorn, the grandson of Doug Vulcan, Lincoln American Legion Post 9 adjutant, found himself taking part in the June 14 flag disposal ceremony at Hooper Park after telling his grandfather he'd never been to one.
Post 9 Commander Rick Foreman, whose grandson Kade Sampson also took part in the ceremony, estimated they had more than a hundred unserviceable flags to dispose of during their annual ceremony on Flag Day.
"We've been collecting them at the senior center," Foreman said. "we usually have a box there and Doug picks them up periodically. We're trying to get an old mailbox or something and put up a box maybe somewhere in town and have it just for flag disposal, but you've got to make it not look like a trash can."
Unserviceable American flags can still be dropped off at the Senior Center.
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