Posted on 12/07/2013 2:56:25 PM PST by DJ Taylor
The American flag that flies over the Pickens County Sheriff's Office will be raised high tonight despite an order by President Barack Obama that flags across the country be lowered to half-staff to honor the death of iconic South African leader Nelson Mandela.
Sheriff Rick Clark told The Greenville News that he has ordered the flag be raised at the end of today because he said the honor of lowering flags to half-staff should be reserved for Americans.
"The flag at half-staff is for Americans' ultimate sacrifice for our country," Clark said. "We should never stray away from that."
The flag has flown at half-staff and will continue to during daylight hours today in honor of a Low country law enforcement officer who was killed and in honor of Pearl Harbor Day, Clark said.
However, come tonight, the flag will be raised, he said.
On Thursday, Obama ordered that flags be flown at half-staff on public grounds until sunset Monday.
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You bethch, ya.
Went up to Limestone, TN this morning to see the David Crockett birthplace. A very cool Park ranger named Bill made the experience most enjoyable. Man, that is one out of the way place. But TN was truly beautiful in the morning mist and fog.
But for Asheville NC, I am still in love with the South.
Good for Sherrif Rick!
Churchill had American blood from his mother's side.
Churchill’s mother was an American, too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Randolph_Churchill
But, yeah, I also laugh my head off at some of the fatuous, helpless, pathetic liberals there...
NW South Carolina is a big secret. Everyone thinks SC is hot and dripping with Spanish Moss. Do NOT tell anyone who has ever thought of voting Democrat about the cool and misty Blue Ridge Escarpment. Keep them far away. Tell them it is uncivilized and not enamored of homosexual honeymooning and no Starbucks and internet is very slow.
Hilarious. We are relocating to NW South Carolina-fleeing from California. Don’t tell anyone!
Is that why I’m seeing AMERICAN flags at half mast? FOR AN AVOWED COMMUNIST???
We living in bizzaro world.
God Bless the sheriff for not lowering the flag.
Avowed Communist and convicted terrorist. While no one can argue apartheid was wrong, that does not give anyone carte blanche to go out and kill innocent civilians in retaliation. His “moral high ground” vanished with those acts of terror (nevermind aligning himself with the political enemy of freedom, Communism, the ultimate in hypocrisy).
He should have been “Ruby-ed” in prison. I said it.
His claim to any moral high ground resonates with a Kennedy-esque hollowness.
if you are going to lower it for Mandela then you might as well lower it for Castro when he goes.. Mandela loved Castro and his glorious revolution.. two peas in a pod
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Ssshhhh! Don’t tell.
I gave up keeping track of why Brooklyn Courthouse flags
fly at half mast, but I did notice they were recently.
For this person?
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