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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Ball on February 10, 2007, 11:22:04 AM
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No.. this isn't a thread about Lazs, it is about the flags in the USA. While i was there all of the flags were flying at half mast... why? Is it because of the Iraq war? You all in mourning because you have a chimp for a president? Did you get warned that i was coming over there?
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They were at half mast to warn the populace that a half wit was among them. Think of it as an early warning system for the community. Once you left they went right back up.
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there were at Half mast in Rememberance of Pres. Ford .
from dec- jan 25th i believe .
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They more than likely flew at half mast because a local soldier had recently died in Iraq.
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Originally posted by Roscoroo
there were at Half mast in Rememberance of Pres. Ford .
from dec- jan 25th i believe .
That could be it too, depending when you were here.
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Thanks guys.
I think the half wit one is the most likely.
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perhaps we were mourning the fact that in order to remain a free society, we have to let people like you in.
;)
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DING DING DING
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Half staff.
Unless you were looking at a ship with its flag at half mast.
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Originally posted by Ball
Thanks guys.
I think the half wit one is the most likely.
Never seen someone fess up so quick. :D
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Originally posted by Roscoroo
there were at Half mast in Rememberance of Pres. Ford .
from dec- jan 25th i believe .
He's right. After the death of any sitting or former President, flags fly at half staff in their honor.
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[edit] United States
The United States flag flying at half-staff at sunset.
The United States flag flying at half-staff at sunset.
In the United States, the President can issue an executive order for the flag of the United States to be flown at half-staff upon the death of principal figures of the United States government, and others, as a mark of respect to their memory. When such an order is issued, all government buildings, offices, public schools and military bases are to fly their flags at half-staff. Under federal law (4 U.S.C. 7(f)), the flags of states, cities, localities, and pennants of societies, shall never be placed above the flag of the United States; thus, all other flags also fly at half-staff when the U.S. flag has been ordered to fly at half-staff.
Governors of the several U.S. states or territories are authorized by federal law to order all U.S. and state flags in their jurisdiction flown at half-staff as a mark of respect for a state official or resident who has died. Since a governor's executive order affects only his or her state, not the entire country, these orders are distinguished from presidential proclamations.
U.S. Code provides that the flag of the United States is to be flown at half-staff in following circumstances:
* For thirty days after the death of a current or former president.
* For ten days after the death of a current vice president, chief justice, or speaker of the House of Representatives.
* From the day of death until interment of an associate justice of the Supreme Court, a secretary of an executive or military department, a former vice president, or the governor of a state, territory, or possession.
* On the day of death and the following day for a member of Congress- i.e. a senator, a representative, a delegate, or the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico.
* On Memorial Day until noon.
* Upon presidential proclamation, which have included: the remembrance of the 9/11 attacks, the death of Pope John Paul II, the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003, the victims of Hurricane Katrina, the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, and the death of Coretta Scott King.
US federal law requires the flag be flown at half-staff on Peace Officers Memorial Day (May 15), unless that day is also Armed Forces Day. Yearly presidential proclamations also mandate that the flag be flown at half-staff on Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day (December 7) and National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day (July 27), September 11 (Patriot Day) may also have the flag flown at half-staff.
The flag of the United States may only properly be flown at half-staff pursuant to a provision of federal law, a presidential proclamation, or a gubernatorial proclamation in the state concerned. Under any other circumstance, the flag of the United States is supposed to be flown at full-staff.
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Dago, love your avatar. :p
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Originally posted by texasmom
Dago, love your avatar. :p
Thanks, I mean it with all my heart!