This is trending toward making the gesture as irrelevant as the Nobel Prize , a Pulitzer or an Oscar.
No offense taken here- I always took it to be a matter of State; a national issue of remembrance or the death of someone who gave their life or lifetime of service to the Republic.
This was a crime by a demonically possessed freak.
Obama has no sense of protocol, and is advised by clowns with no sense of service to country or loyalty thereto.
Just think.. if we lowered it every time 14 died in a Chicago shooting we’d never be able to raise it to the top.
I agree. When I looked at the etiquette behind this, there are certain holidays, Memorial Day and Veterans Day and when a President or Governor wants to do so.
Remember Christie lowering it for Whitney Houston?
I do think it should have been done for Ft. Hood.
Your absolutely right, it’s “taking away the meaning.”
And we have a perfectly good and apt adjective for that: demeaning.
Lowering the American flag in the wake of a tragedy is absurd. And that’s what this terrible crime was to these victims and their families — a tragedy. No more and no less. It’s a car accident. It’s a bolt of lightning. It’s cancer.
Those who go along with lowering the flag in response to a tragedy like this have no understanding of this country or her people.
It’s disrespectful to the entire nation, but particularly those who serve this country in uniform.
Absolutely! I was always taught that the flag was lowered for someone serving our country — like the military, a Congressman, senator, maybe a mayor. In the case of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, our country was attacked. This afternoon, when I came back to my hotel, I was surprised when the TV was making a big deal about the local college President (in CA) lowered the college flag. I said, “What is the point of that? The victims weren’t from CA, or from this college.” It seemed stupid and irrelevant. Then I found out that Obama had ordered it. It still seems stupid and irrelevent.
Since I’m more than 2000 miles away from home, my flag is still flying high. It will remain that way.