[leslie_is_cooking]

Please make certain that when your Old Glory begins to fade and/or fray at the end to dispose of it properly and spend a few dollars to fly a new one. It is NOT respectful to fly a worn, tattered, frayed flag unless that particular flag's survival has some special meaning (i.e. the flag that was flown over Ground Zero).

[ErnBatavia]

Please make certain that when your Old Glory begins to fade and/or fray at the end to dispose of it properly

Correcto! - the one we flew for the entire duration of Gulf War I held up through the 9/11 period. Then it was properly folded and turned over to the local Boy Scout Troop.