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Because he just died a day or so ago. They don’t lower the flag until the day you go in the ground. The flags are appropriately placed at this time.

That simply is not true.

Obama: Flags To Be Flown At Half-Staff In Wake Of Shooting At Wisconsin Sikh Temple --President Barack Obama ordered flags at all U.S. government facilities both at home and abroad to be flown at half-staff Monday, a response to a mass-shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin over the weekend.

"As a mark of respect for the victims of the senseless acts of violence perpetrated on August 5, 2012, in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, by the authority vested in me as President of the United States by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby order that the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff at the White House and upon all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions until sunset, August 10, 2012," Obama wrote in the proclamation.

He continued: "I also direct that the flag shall be flown at half-staff for the same length of time at all United States embassies, legations, consular offices, and other facilities abroad, including all military facilities and naval vessels and stations."

Under 4 U.S.C. § 7(m) the flag of the United States is to be flown at half-staff in following circumstances: For thirty days after the death of a current or former president or president-elect, as occurred after the death of President Reagan and the death of President Ford. For ten days after the death of a current vice president, current or retired chief justice, or current speaker of the House of Representatives.

From the day of death until interment of an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, a secretary of an executive or military department, a former vice president, or the governor of a state, territory, or possession.

On the day of death and the following day for a Member of Congress.

On Memorial Day until noon.

Upon presidential proclamation, which has recently included: the interment of Frank Buckles, the death of Senator Ted Kennedy; the remembrance of the 9/11 attacks the death of Pope John Paul II, the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003, the victims of Hurricane Katrina, the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, the deaths of Coretta Scott King and Rosa Parks, Virginia Tech massacre, Fort Hood massacre, and the 2012 shooting in Aurora Colorado.