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Old 07-23-2015, 10:19 AM   #17
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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'...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-mast#United_States
Upon presidential proclamation, such as for the death of Pope John Paul II,[47] the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster,[48] the victims of Hurricane Katrina,[49] the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami,[50] the deaths of Coretta Scott King[51] and Rosa Parks,[52] the Virginia Tech massacre,[53] the Fort Hood massacre,[54] the 2011 Tucson shooting, the funeral of Neil Armstrong,[55] the death of US Ambassador to Libya Chris Stephens, the 2012 shooting in Aurora Colorado, the 2012 Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting, the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings,[56] the death of Nelson Mandela,[57] the 2013 Washington, D.C. Navy Yard shooting, and the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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