Flag retirement

Published 1:30 am Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Tom Daugherty, a retired Marine, was one of many retired military personnel who helped retire American flags according to protocol on Flag Day. Eighteen cloth American flags were burned June 14 during the flag retirement ceremony at the Northwest Veterans Resource Center in Port Angeles. It was organized by the Michael Trebert Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

Tom Daugherty, a retired Marine, was one of many retired military personnel who helped retire American flags according to protocol on Flag Day. Eighteen cloth American flags were burned June 14 during the flag retirement ceremony at the Northwest Veterans Resource Center in Port Angeles. It was organized by the Michael Trebert Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

Tom Daugherty, a retired Marine, was one of many retired military personnel who helped retire American flags according to protocol on Flag Day.

Eighteen cloth American flags were burned June 14 during the flag retirement ceremony at the Northwest Veterans Resource Center in Port Angeles.

It was organized by the Michael Trebert Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.