Stlou

Yes I have a practice scheduled for Nov 9th!! Hopefully we get all the kinks out!!! But Im sure there will be mistakes but that is life as well as part of scouting!! Thanks again Stlou

Thanks everyone!!!! All your answers are very helpful!!! Im not as nervous about doing this as I was before I asked!!! Thanks Again!! Ill let you guys know how it goes Thanks Stlou

Thanks for your help!!! There is no stage but there is going to be a podium up front of the kids. The kids will be seated in the center of the gym so there will be an aisle on both sides. So you are saying that the American flag needs to come up to the podium on the audiences right and then crossover to the right of the podium followed by the state flag coming up on the left crossing over after the american flag?? How about Taps being played at the retrieval of the flags?? Ive always found that Taps being played is very entertaining and powerful and I think it will keep the kids attention untill the flags are removed from the gym and I believe the Veterans will like it as well!! Any thoughts on this ???

My Boyscouts and Cubscouts have been asked to do a flag Ceremony at school during there Veterans Day assembly. The student body will be there plus some local veterans, teachers and staff. The ceremony will be in the school Gym. The flags will be brought in from the rear of the audience and posted in front of them. The American Flag posted to the speakers right and the state flag to the speakers left. I have two questions the first is when the flags enter the gym is it ok to split the flags up and have the American Flag brought up on the left and the State Flag on the right?? The second question is when we retrieve the flags at the end of the ceremony and the flags taken out of the gym is it ok to have Taps played. It will be a recording of a bugle player??? I know that Taps can be played at a flag lowering but was not sure if it could be played as they are taken out of the gym??? We are a new Boy Scout Troop and I just want to make sure we do this right!! The Boy scouts and the Cub scouts as well as the Girl scouts will be involved in the bringing in of the Flags!!!