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By Brian Mudd Today’s entry: When the Federal Government provides a Flag Half Staff alert but the State does not, do you follow the Federal Government’s alert? Sometimes the State of Florida announces an alert in conjunction with the Federal alert sometimes they don’t. If they don’t what does that mean? Bottom Line: Under the US Flag code, there are three executives who can order the U.S. Flag at half-staff. The President of the United States, the governor of a state, and the mayor of the District of Columbia. The order applies only to each’s jurisdiction. In other words, if the mayor of Washington D.C. issued an order but it wasn’t matched by either the governor of Florida or the President of the United States, it wouldn’t apply elsewhere. The same holds true regarding the order within a specific state. If Florida’s governor issued an order that wasn’t matched by the president or D.C. mayor, it’d only apply here. ....
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Biden directs US flag to be flown at half-staff for COVID-19 victims Evan Vucci/AP President Joe Biden speaks about the 500,000 Americans that died from COVID-19, Monday, Feb. 22, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) President Joe Biden XXX during a ceremony to honor the 500,000 Americans that died from COVID-19, at the White House, Monday, Feb. 22, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) and last updated 2021-02-22 23:02:26-05 As the US surpassed 500,000 coronavirus-related deaths on Monday, President Joe Biden directed that the US flag be flown at half-staff through sundown Friday. The rate of coronavirus deaths has increased in recent months. Half of the 500,000 deaths have occurred in the last three months. ....
It is the time for the president of the united states to be a diplomat and not continue to fight senator mccain even in death. you have veterans and organizations asking the president to continue to have the flag half staff. he refused. the next day instead of keeping it there until the senator was buried. he missed a great opportunity to try to unite the country. there s no surprise there when it comes to president trump. ken, you re a republican. who do you think would have been a better president? mccain or obama? john mccain. the president couldn t answer that today. we would have been in wars all over the world. but. his arch nemesis of barack obama. asked that question today. the day the senator of his own party was lying in repose. and being memorialized. he couldn t answer that ....
pickens county sheriff rick clark doesn t think it has place in south carolina in his county. he says this type of honor should be reserved for americans. nelson mandela is not an her can. he laid out his argument to our local affiliate, whns. take a listen. so a sign of respect for what nelson mandela has done. i have no problem with lowering in south africa for their country. but in our country, it is for our people who have sacrificed for our country. rick clark says it is the right thing to do at u.s. embassy in south africa but no place here at home. it had been quite easy to keep the flag at half staff. they had a deputy die earlier this week. they already had the flag half staff. they were also honoring pearl harbor. so it would have been easy for them to keep it up. he has some support. ....