Posted on 11/09/2018 7:47:40 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel
When will we stop lowering our flag?
I drove into work this morning, and AGAIN the flags are lowered. I see DJT has ordered it again, this time for the victims of the bar shooting. (No, it is NOT for Armistice/Veteran's Day, which means again BTW it will be down at least on Sunday.)
Not a week goes by our US flag is not prostrate anymore.
WADR, I appreciate the grief over yet another mass murder, but this is NOT what lowering the flag is for.
I am sick of seeing them lowered; it symbolizes we are constantly in mourning - constantly WEAK and VULNERABLE. Constantly bending to some force, however small.
This all started with 9/11. Before that, we went by the Code. Flag-lowering was for HIGHLY IMPORTANT officials at a national level, on their death (NOT John McCain).
I can certainly understand "bending" the rules for a MASSIVE atrocity like 9/11, but that does not mean every mass murder should get a lowered flag (sorry, even 50 does not compare to 3000 - and that was a foreign attack). Why not every thug killing in Baltimore and Chicago? Why not every time a serial killer strikes? Maybe for those actual accidents, like the NY limo accident?
My God, we are CONSTANTLY showing weakness. It is disrespectful to the flag, to the nation. Because it shows how cowed we are.
I know. I am a complete traditionalist, and very sentimental about traditions to a fault, and this stuff just gets my goat. I know a lot of Americans could not care less, but this stuff is important to me.
Things have meanings.
They cheapend the sacrifice of every fallen hero to the equivalency of a damn guard dog and don’t get it or even care.
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