Nicholas Heimiller’s Eagle project was to build a brick firepit for VFW Post 8438 in Newfane. The VFW is a drop location for the community for old flags that need to be retired.
The VFW post didn’t have a good place to perform the respectful retirement ceremony, which involves burning the flags. Therefore, Nicholas and his team from Troop 22 built a brick firepit in order to help mitigate the large buildup of flags ready for retirement. The VFW Post currently has numerous large bags full of old flags ready for retirement and the flag retirement pit will provide a proper place to conduct the flag retiring ceremony.
