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Originally Posted by That Guy
Because their lives were deliberately taken on American soil.
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That has nothing to do with the 'rules' or precedents of when to have the flag at half-mast.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-mast#United_States
http://www.va.gov/opa/publications/c.../halfstaff.pdf
http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagcode.htm
I have NO problem with the flag at half-mast for the soldiers recently murdered while on active duty. But it is clearly at the discretion of the local authorities first. The White House lowered the flags within a timeline consistent with similar scenarios in recent history. This is just another chance for superficial bashing and in my opinion was nothing disrespectful or out of the place with history of 'lowering the flag'...