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Why are all the flags still at half-mast? Is this for Gerald Ford? Didn’t he die in December? Not to be a killjoy, but if that’s the case, um, why are they still half-mast? Don’t get me wrong - I don’t have an issue keeping them at half for like a week or so. Sure, president, big deal, drop the flag. But this is like weeks? Wasn’t the whole
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In the event of the death a present or former official of the government of any State, territory, or possession of the United States, the Governor of that state, territory, or possession may proclaim that the National flag shall be flown at half-staff." The code also includes other related details including the specific length of time during which the flag should be displayed at half-staff, in the event of the death of a "principal figure"(e.g., 30 days for the death of a sitting or former President, 10 days for the death of a sitting Vice-President,etc.).
a full month?!? jesus, in this nation of short-attention-span, a.d.d. bastards, how many people even remembered who it was half staff for even a couple of days after the fact? shit man, i'm sure more than half of the nation either didn't know why it was flying half staff in the first place, or more likely, didn't even notice.
i had thought that bush was the one that changed the rules, for reagan, to make it longer, but that article says it's from 1994, so i guess that's just policy. i probably didn't notice because the only other president i can think of dying was reagan, and i assumed then that bush had done something to make it so we would mourn longer. oddly enough, my mistake, it's previous policy that's retarded, and not neccessarily bush in this instance.
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1994? That's when the last president prior to Reagan croaked, and that was Nixon. Makes me wonder if they changed that rule after or before.
"Thank god, Nixon's dead. Now we can finally change the rule back and canonize without scrutiny! Praise Reagan!"
Pedantic, overblown crap.
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