Flags Ordered to Half-Staff As Mark of Respect For Orlando Shooting Victims

Fox News ^ | 02:10PM, JUNE 12, 2016 | fox 13 staff

[drewh]

President Barack Obama has ordered the lowering of the flag of the United States of America to half-staff as a mark of respect for the victims in a nightclub shooting in Orlando.

The flags are to be lowered June 12 and expected to stay at half-staff until sunset, on June 16. Utah Gov. Gary Herbert issued a similar statement for the flag of the state of Utah and the American Flag in Utah for the same timeline.

[Trod Upon]

I don’t fly it at all. Haven’t since the 0bamanation was elected. Maybe someday my country will be worthy of that flag again.

[Taxman]

Me too!

[the OlLine Rebel]

No, it should be for primary officials of the US. Period.

Only extreme circumstances might warrant MORE lowering. 9/11 was very exceptional, but that is when the execs really started going hog-wild, declaring every atrocity/tragedy lowering-worthy.

[rlmorel]

I agree with you 100%.

There is something unhealthy, corrosive and weak about it, this constant state of mourning. I get the distinct impression that our government wants us to walk around in a perpetual state of mourning.

I simply won’t do it.

[Churchillspirit]

On my way to work I pass 2 USPO. On Memorial Day, neither had the flags at half staff at 10a.m.

[Charles Martel]

I’m surprised he didn’t order them at half staff to honor the shooter.

I'm sure there was a celebratory fist-bump between Hussein and Jarrett.

[tumblindice]

I walked the pooch by the high school Thursday, and the US flag is at half-staff.
I asked some people if they knew why and they didn’t know.

[Charles Martel]

The school may have had it at half-staff since Memorial Day. I see that a lot - usually banks and such places that fly the flag, but aren’t terribly diligent about it.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

And the flags should be upside-down.

[philman_36]

Historical and Revision Notes

Revised Section	Source (U.S. Code)	Source (Statutes at Large)
7	36:175.	June 22, 1942, ch. 435, §3, 56 Stat. 378; Dec. 22, 1942, ch. 806, §3, 56 Stat. 1075; July 9, 1953, ch. 183, 67 Stat. 142; July 7, 1976, Pub. L. 94–344, (6)–(11), 90 Stat. 811; Sept. 13, 1994, Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXII, §320922(b), 108 Stat. 2131.

... posters linked NEWer versions of the Code
Do you have the links still?

[philman_36]

The United States Flag: Federal Law Relating to Display and Associated Questions Updated April 14, 2008 Presidents also have ordered the flag to be flown at half-staff on the death of leading citizens, not covered by law, as a mark of official tribute to their service to the United States. Martin Luther King, Jr. is among those who have been so honored.
Again, the provisions of the Flag Code on flying the flag at half-staff are, like all the Code’s provisions, a guide only. They do not apply, as a matter of law, to the display of the flag at half-staff by privat e individuals and organizations. No federal restrictions or court decisions are known th at limit such an individual’s lowering his own flag or that make such disp lay alone a form of desecration.

What service did they do? None that I can tell. And they were not leading citizens.

[philman_36]

I see what you're talking about now... §10. Modification of rules and customs by President
Any rule or custom pertaining to the display of the flag of the United States of America, set forth herein, may be altered, modified, or repealed, or additional rules with respect thereto may be prescribed, by the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States, whenever he deems it to be appropriate or desirable; and any such alteration or additional rule shall be set forth in a proclamation.
(Added Pub. L. 105–225, §2(a), Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1498.)

A proclamation has to be written. A verbal order isn't sufficient.

[fwdude]

Since I never fly the flag of the former Unted States, this order is completely irrelevant.

[philman_36]

Title 4 - FLAG AND SEAL, SEAT OF GOVERNMENT, AND THE STATES CHAPTER 1 - THE FLAG

[philman_36]

Presidential Proclamation -- Honoring the Victims of the Attack in Orlando, Florida

It was done. I should have looked first.

[Karliner]

Soetero said the same damned speech after Ft Hood, Boston, Tennessee, Oregon,San Bernardino, this, and it seems like there have been more. Don’t all his peeches after “these tragedies...” sound almost the same word for word? I found myself listening today and thought is was a tape recorder.
I wonder if anyone can correlate his speeches after the attacks. I’ve a feeling they’re almost the same.
I wonder about just how deep that WH is in the muslim Brotherhood. It has to be a hostile place to work.
I wonder if the muslim B-hood ordered this or CAIR what mosque he was attending and if attending would there be secondary explosions if we blew it to hell.
I wonder if them muslims hate homosexuals so much and Obama loves them so much and since they’re all over the WH then who would Obama point a finger at?
Muslims who notoriously hate yet he said he’d ultimately stand with them and they’d be the first to kill him.?
I wonder who wins in a gun free zone?
Yes this is all rhetorical except the first part about all his speeches sounding the same. Has anyone really compiled all his speeches to show he’s saying the same thing?
I wonder how long they think they can keep spinning this crap and think we’re believing it.
I wonder if anyone at all is listening anymore because all the talking is the same horse%$%^.

Over and over and over again. It has to stop.

[The Great RJ]

This half staff flag honor is done so often it has lost all meaning. I don’t think twice when I see a half staff flag as I doubt I would even know who was being honored nor really care. It’s about time this practice be ended or reserved only for significant national figures. With Obama it might be more appropriate to fly the flag upside down

[OrangeHoof]

Lowering our zippers to half-staff would be more poignant.

[VerySadAmerican]

I guarantee it will be flown at half staff at the Olympics.