One of my hunting partners is retired army and is in the VFW. The local VFW has a drop box for people to leave old, unusable US flags to be properly burned. Our Trail Life troop helps him do the burning on occasion. He gets hundreds of flags a year and has been watching for a 48 star flag. Those haven't been used since HI became a state in '59. He finally got one. It's pretty well thrashed but the colors are still sharp. I'm thinking it was flown in a terrific wind storm years ago before it had time to fade and has been in someone's closet ever since.

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