Trumbull Legislators Sponsor Retired Flag Collection

Information via House Republicans

TRUMBULL, CT — With Flag Day a little more than a month away, it is the ideal time for residents to properly retire their worn, faded and tattered American flags as they prepare to put on fresh new displays of the Stars and Stripes.

According to a news release provided by House Republicans, State Reps. David Rutigliano (R-123), Ben McGorty (R-122) and Tony Scott (R-112), in cooperation with the Trumbull American Legion Post #141, are encouraging Trumbull residents to dispose of their worn American flags in a dignified and respectful way.

Republican House members have made the flag collection an annual tradition for the last ten years to commemorate Flag Day.

The Trumbull legislators have provided three locations that residents can drop off their worn American flags for proper ceremonial disposal according to the U.S. Flag Code, plus an additional day to drop flags off to the state representatives.

Drop-off locations will receive flags from May 6 to June 10.

The drop-off locations are:

• Trumbull Town Hall, 5866 Main Street, Trumbull
• Trumbull Library, 33 Quality Street, Trumbull
• Fairchild-Nichols Memorial Library, 1718 Huntington Turnpike, Trumbull

Additionally the Trumbull lawmakers will host a drive-up flag collection for residents' worn and tattered flags at Middlebrook Elementary School, located at 220 Middlebrooks Avenue in Trumbull, on June 8 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.

In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson marked the anniversary of the Second Continental Congress passing a resolution stating that "the flag of the United States be 13 stripes, alternate red and white," and that "the union be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation" by officially establishing June 14 as Flag Day, according to the release.

The U.S. Flag Code specifies that old American flags no longer in service must be properly disposed. The collected flags will be given to the American Legion Post #141 for proper retirement during a ceremony on June 14.