US flags, when no longer usable, are retired in a ceremony, and can be cut up and used as fabric. Tremont Grade School students, along with a veterans group, did exactly that for a good cause. More later on WMBD and WYZZ News.
Disclosure: I was involved with this story.

Silence is golden. So it shall be for me on WAP a lot. Certain Conservatives don't like it, too bad,