Donating your retired flag is a safe and respectful disposal technique.
Veterans of Foreign Wars posts will gladly take them to recycle or burn. VFW flag disposal locations such as our drop box ensure the flags are taken care of properly.
That the purpose of this Corporation shall be fraternal, patriotic, historical, charitable, and educational: to preserve and strengthen comradeship among its members; to assist worthy comrades; to perpetuate the memory and history of our dead; and to assist their widows and orphans; to maintain true allegiance to the Government of the United States of America, and fidelity to its Constitution and laws; to foster true patriotism; to maintain and extend the institutions of American freedom, and to preserve and defend the United States from all her enemies.