Posted on 07/01/2016 8:29:47 AM PDT by PROCON
NEW YORK (AP) -- Nearly every day, somewhere in the country, the Stars and Stripes was lowered to half-staff last year in one of the most significant official gestures of mourning and respect, an Associated Press analysis found.
The centuries-old practice can be a visible, public answer to extraordinary loss, as when more than four dozen people were killed last month at a gay nightclub in Florida.
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“YES! Find other ways to honor and pay respect to civilians.......”
that were not heros, simply unfortunate to be in the wrong place at the wrong time
Thank you. That’s good advice...:)
Sorry, I misread your post.
Yes, I understand.
To answer the base question, yes we are abusing the flag’s lowering to half staff for just about every Tom, Dick, and Harry. Having said that, while driving around Memphis this week, I saw many at half staff. I asked my wife why and all she could come up with was it was for Pat Summitt, former head women’s basketball coach at UT. That made sense because no local or state politicians had died this week.
That was actually Governor Chris Christie that ordered the New Jersey state flag lowered to half mast. There was no presidential half-staff notice issued to honor her death.
(just clarifying, not justifying)
That was actually Governor Chris Christie that ordered the New Jersey state flag lowered to half mast. There was no presidential half-staff notice issued to honor her death.
THAT is an outrage.
It has turned into something akin to giving trophies to school children for breathing.
i fly all my flags upside down. since last june. Supreme Court decisions. There is no longer law in the U.S. of A.
Tell me that’s a joke.
Please.
I wish it were a joke, but it's true. She also has a school named after her in East Orange, NJ.
“I wish it were a joke, but it’s true. She also has a school named after her in East Orange, NJ. “
It’s sad that all junkies can’t be honored this way./s
(I am NOT criticising her——addiction is an awful thing. I AM criticizing the honors bestowed on her.)
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I flew mine at half staff last year on the day of the Extreme Court’s sodomite “marriage” decision. I think its only flown once since then.
But the president has the responsibility to honor people which includes the final say in who.
According to title 4: “Any rule or custom pertaining to the display of the flag of the United States of America, set forth herein, may be altered, modified, or repealed, or additional rules with respect thereto may be prescribed, by the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States, whenever he deems it to be appropriate or desirable; and any such alteration or additional rule shall be set forth in a proclamation.”
In other words, to do what is right, no matter who else does it wrong, it is his final responsibility to make the determination whether it is proper to fly a flag at half mast honoring a specific person. He has the final say, it’s just another screw-up.
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We have become a nation of EMOS.
Roccus,
If you want to fly your flag any way you want, that’s fine. But I spent 32 years serving under it, and I feel it should be respected also. And that includes not using it to pander votes or misrepresent it’s determined by law use by the people we pay to apply the law. And they did it.
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Uh YES!
I know how you feel. I am conflicted by this kind of thing...my dad was buried under it and I served under it (Thank you for your service) and the flag MEANS something to me.
Dammit. Sometimes I wish it didn’t, but whenever I think of it that way, I think of our POWs in the Hanoi Hilton who risked their lives to display it in private and say the Pledge of Allegiance, and I see is is a pussified, weak way to deal with it, just putting it out of my mind.
And it bucks me up. On the scheme of things, it is completely inconsequential to SOME people (”All this for a flag?”) and means everything to others to the point of risking a bloody beating and even their lives (our POWs) and I think...”Hmmm...who do I want to take my cues from?”
And then it is easy again.
4 U.S.C. 10 is pretty broad.
you are welcome :)
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