{"id":14258,"date":"2017-05-05T16:16:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T21:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/?p=14258"},"modified":"2021-04-22T10:36:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T15:36:00","slug":"mma-cadet-builds-flag-retirement-receptacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/14258\/mma-cadet-builds-flag-retirement-receptacle\/","title":{"rendered":"MMA cadet builds flag retirement receptacle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Marine Military Academy cadet built a much-needed flag retirement receptacle for his Eagle Scout leadership service project. The wooden drop box will be permanently housed inside the Iwo Jima Museum &amp; Gift Shop so the community has a place to leave tattered and\/or faded U.S. flags. Sophomore&nbsp;<strong>Bryan Streiff<\/strong>&nbsp;of Nevada City, Calif., gifted his receptacle to the museum April 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because he is both an MMA cadet and Eagle Scout candidate, the patriotic teenager decided to make an attractive container where worn U.S. flags could be left and stored with more dignity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMost people keep old American flags in trash bags until they are ready to be retired, but I think this is a more respectable way to hold them,\u201d Streiff said. \u201cAlmost anywhere you go in the country, it is hard to find a flag receptacle. There is a need for this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/horizontal_droppingflag_web.jpg\" alt=\"Streiff holding a flag\" class=\"wp-image-14259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/horizontal_droppingflag_web.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/horizontal_droppingflag_web-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><figcaption>Sophomore Bryan Streiff of Nevada City, Calif., and Iwo Jima Museum &amp; Gift Shop Director Gloria Boling drop the first flag into the flag retirement receptacle.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Marine Military Academy cadet built a much-needed flag retirement receptacle for his Eagle Scout leadership service project. The wooden drop box will be permanently housed inside the Iwo Jima Museum &amp; Gift Shop so the community has a place to leave tattered and\/or faded U.S. flags. Sophomore&nbsp;Bryan Streiff&nbsp;of Nevada City, Calif., gifted his receptacle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14519,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14258\/revisions\/14519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}