Description: HonorOurFlag suggests a better way to honor good citizens on their passing. The act of lowering our national flag to half-staff is too often abused for poitical aims.
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A Great Honor Diluted Over the past couple decades, we’ve seen our nation’s flag flown at half-staff on almost a weekly basis. Often, we don’t know why. This much is certain: flying the flag at half-staff so often diminishes the gesture. An honor once reserved for those who have given their last full measure of devotion to the United States of America, is now given to non U.S. citizens, low-level government officials, victims of criminal acts and anyone else an elected official feels might gain them r
By the current standard, we could fly our flag at half-staff almost every day. However, it then begins to symbolize something else. It depicts a loss of respect for the values America represents. It pays tribute, not to heroes, but to the unwell mind that commits a heinous act and causes a powerful nation to bow its head in remorse and shame.