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deminks

(11,014 posts)
Mon Aug 27, 2018, 08:11 AM Aug 2018

WH flag at half-staff less than 48 hours

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/white-house-flag-back-full-staff-less-48-hours-john-mccains-death/

he White House broke protocol Monday morning by returning the American flag to full staff before the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was buried.

The flag was flown at half-staff to mark the passing Saturday of the 81-year-old McCain after a battle with brain cancer, but was flying high the following day.

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The orange toddler makes it about himself again.
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WH flag at half-staff less than 48 hours (Original Post) deminks Aug 2018 OP
"George W. Bush ordered the flags flown at half-staff until the interment of Pope John Paul II. dalton99a Aug 2018 #1
All flags in America should be a half mast until the lsos is removed from our WH randr Aug 2018 #2
Do they fly the flag at night? muriel_volestrangler Aug 2018 #3
Trump is an asshole Gothmog Aug 2018 #4

dalton99a

(81,516 posts)
1. "George W. Bush ordered the flags flown at half-staff until the interment of Pope John Paul II.
Mon Aug 27, 2018, 08:23 AM
Aug 2018

Indian Ocean earthquake and resulting tsunamis in 2004 prompted flags to be flown at half-staff from a Monday through the end of the following Friday."
http://mentalfloss.com/article/23227/why-are-flags-flown-half-staff-times-mourning

Donald Trump is a criminal and a traitor to the United States.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,322 posts)
3. Do they fly the flag at night?
Mon Aug 27, 2018, 09:06 AM
Aug 2018

Many places don't. It's possible this means the flag was at half-mast just one day. During most of which, Trump was off golfing in Virginia. Basically, it seems like he won't have it at half-mast while he's there.

(looked it up - they do fly it in the night)

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