By MIKE BRUN
Wasatch Elementary School children, with the help of the BYU ROTC, retired their tattered flag Tuesday morning to the sound of a bugle.
The Gentlemen’s Club is a club for fifth- and sixth-grade boys at Wasatch Elementary School. One of the duties of club members is to perform the daily flag ceremony at the school. Because of the weather-beaten state of its flag, Wasatch Elementary enlisted the help of BYU’s ROTC to give the flag a respectful retirement and also to unfurl the bright, new flag in military style.
Before the flag ceremony Tuesday morning, Capt. Mike Current told the Gentlemen’s Club about the greatness of the United States. Current also reminded them about the importance of wearing their club uniforms as they carry the American Flag.
“Sacrificing our individuality for a short time, by wearing a uniform, shows that we are more committed to our united, higher cause than we are to ourselves,” he said. Current told the gentlemen that when we handle the flag, we symbolically bear in our hands all of the values, principles, and beliefs Americans hold dear.
“It is gratifying to see that in the middle of the ‘me generation,’ Wasatch Elementary School has so many young men willing to sacrifice their time and energy to pay tribute to the flag and what it represents,” he said.
