Nope...

"Present Arms" is the command to lower. The action would take place, the HALYARD bearers would finish lowering, hold the halyard in the left hand at Attention, render the hand salute, and then you'd say "Order Arms". Everyone drops their salute, halyards are secured, bearers post back into formation (you can give "Post" if you want), and you march off.

What you did here was make up whatever you thought was appropriate instead of looking in TC 3-21.5.

Besides doing a poor job of allowing the HALYARDS to slide through the hands, and make up to erroneous commands, why are uniformed personnel lowering flags for the Salvation Army? This is a very similar situation where a color guard is not authorized to carry a flag that is not specifically for a federal, county, tribal, territory, or state government, or a military flag.

What you have done here, while seemingly innocent, is quite possibly a violation of DoD Instruction 5410.19 Vol 4 and AR 840-10.

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