Our Flag
543 views·10 replies·by pequa1
OK, so my flag has been at half staff for several weeks for the victims of the china virus. Normally, and by protocol, at noon on Memorial Day it is put back up to full and left there until sundown or if lighted. I intend to leave it up for the rest of the day and MAYBE lowering it to half staff again tomorrow. Thoughts ?
CommodoreOriginal Crew7,027 postsSince 2018
Well, I followed Princess Andie and lowered mine to half staff a month or so ago. POTUS said that our flag should be flown at half mast on the Memorial weekend. (Quite possibly he is unaware of the protocol at noon on Memorial Day.
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I have decided to ignore the nursing home advisor and keep mine up from now on.
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got a picture... cellie...
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I have decided to ignore the nursing home advisor and keep mine up from now on.
CommodoreOriginal Crew7,027 postsSince 2018
I'm not able to fly mine daily, but today I did the standard protocol of half-staff until noon (actually 12:30 because I was on the road) then full staff.
I'm kind of mixed about the constant half-staff thing, since somewhere along the line there was a decision that the flag was only supposed to be flown at half-staff for the loss of a national figure, as it was meant to represent national mourning, not "just" the loss of an individual. i.e. it wasn't appropriate for you to fly your flag at half-staff for the loss of someone important to you. So, if it was inappropriate for me to lower the flag to honor the passing of my father, who served during Korea, and helped land men on the moon, and worked hard and raised a family and always tried to help the people he could help as opposed to the nation mourning some career politician who never did a decent thing in their life except usurp the public,...
Put it this way,... the nation lost a lot more when it lost my dad than it lost when any career politician finally stopped sponging up the nation's wealth and trust. So either we do or we don't. How is the loss of ordinary citizens to a disease suddenly more significant, or even equally significant to the loss of a "national figure,: or the loss of any other citizen?
I'm kind of mixed about the constant half-staff thing, since somewhere along the line there was a decision that the flag was only supposed to be flown at half-staff for the loss of a national figure, as it was meant to represent national mourning, not "just" the loss of an individual. i.e. it wasn't appropriate for you to fly your flag at half-staff for the loss of someone important to you. So, if it was inappropriate for me to lower the flag to honor the passing of my father, who served during Korea, and helped land men on the moon, and worked hard and raised a family and always tried to help the people he could help as opposed to the nation mourning some career politician who never did a decent thing in their life except usurp the public,...
Put it this way,... the nation lost a lot more when it lost my dad than it lost when any career politician finally stopped sponging up the nation's wealth and trust. So either we do or we don't. How is the loss of ordinary citizens to a disease suddenly more significant, or even equally significant to the loss of a "national figure,: or the loss of any other citizen?
CaptainOriginal Crew3,414 postsSince 2019
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