Opening Flag Ceremony

Opening Flag Ceremony

Will the audience please rise. (Pause).

Hand salute. (Pause)

Color guard, advance (Pause).

Please join me in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance (Pause).

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Color guard, post the colors (Pause).

Two. Color guard, dismissed.

Closing Flag Ceremony

Will the audience please rise. (Pause).

Color guard, prepare to retire the colors (Pause).

Scouts and Scouters, salute. (Pause).

Color guard, retire the colors. (Pause).

Two.