Posted on 03/23/2016 6:43:59 AM PDT by MNDude
Is it just me, or is our flag being lowered to half more and more all the time?
Here are the times the US flag has been flown at half mast in the past 6 months (many times for a week at a time.)
US - 3/22/2016 US Flags at Half Staff Honoring the Victims of the Attacks in Brussels, Belgium
US - 3/7/2016 US Flags at Half-Staff Honoring Nancy Reagan
US - 2/13/2016 US Flags at Half Staff Honoring Antonin Scalia
US - 12/3/2015 US Flags at Half-Staff - Honoring The Victims Of The Attack In San Bernardino, California
US - 11/15/2015 US Flags to Half-Staff Honoring Victims of Paris Terrorist Attack
US - 10/4/2015 US Flags to Half Staff National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Service
US - 10/2/2015 US Flag to Half-Staff Honoring the Victims of the Tragedy in Roseburg, Oregon
This of course are just instances of the US officially declaring the flag flown at half-mast due to some tragedy. This is not taking into account when a state governor declares that a flag is flown at half-staff because some local fire fighter, state senator, or police officer (like for Sergeant Dillion J. Semolina flag at half-staff on Feb 26 or for Deputy Steven Sandberg flag at half mast on October 23, 2015 )
And after all these, we still have the regular days remembrance where the flag is at half mast.
Peace Officers Memorial Day Memorial Day Patriot Day Korean War Veterans Armistice Day National Firefighters Memorial Day Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
Don't get me wrong, I'm all in favor of honoring the dead, and especially our veterans, but does anyone else think the flag is half mast a little too often?
I mean, there's only 365 days a year.
bttt
Being retired military....I can remember some year (probably in the early 90s) where the flag was half-mast for at least 100 days out of the year.
Keep letting Muslims in the US and you can just take the flag down permanently.
I flew mine at half mast the day after Obama was re-elected. My neighbor saw what I had done and lowered his as well.
Yep.
Unless it is an official of high national importance, there should not be this honor given. Otherwise, we can just count on two hands the number of days in a year the flag is NOT at half staff.
The caveat is that it can be ordered at half staff by (p)residential or gooberners orders. Mine came down a certain fateful night in Nov. 2012 and has only gone back up on certain occasions like July 4th, Vet Day and Memorial day. Until (if ever) we regain our sanity, it may stay folded in the closet.
http://www.usflag.org/flagetiquette.html
Perhaps permanently upside down to show that the country is in distress under the current regime.
I furled my flag on Usurpation Day, Jan. 20, 2009 and it shall remain in the closet until we have a legitimate President again.
Yep, upside down, dats da one.
If I were to have done that, which I considered, my flag would have been dragging on the ground.
I agree. It’s getting out of hand and looks weak.
No more half mast, even for presidents.
I wonder if Donald likes the idea.
And I think most of the events you cited are legitimate, although I agree that the gesture is being somewhat overdone these days.
This is a pet peeve of mine, and I estimate that the flag is lowered at least half the time if not more. Apparently now if anything bad happens or someone high up in government dies we’re obligated to lower the flag. I wonder what we did during WWII when we were losing thousands of men each week.
Not about flags, well red flags... reminds me of a weird omen I saw on that day. I was on my usual running route, which passed an area along a waterfront. I had never before or after seen any fish there, but on *that one day* they were flying out of the water en masse like they'd all gone crazy. It was the heavy splashing noise that drew my attention.
Talk about a serious disturbance in the normally unseen world of the deep. The fish knew.
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Heck, I no longer fly my flag at all. Once America went into the gutter with faggot-marriage, I vowed to never fly it again. The America and its flag that I’d pledge allegiance to is dead and gone.
“Just a slight correction: Flags are flown at half-STAFF unless they are aboard a United States Naval Vessel or on a United States naval base. In other words, “half-MAST” is reserved for the Navy.”
Ahh... I just learned something new!
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