Sure, got it, but isn’t that almost Hirohito-like leader worship?
Ron from H'villeJanuary 26, 2007 - 1:15 am
I guess that’s one day for each month he served as President, plus an extra day for for good luck. Not for Gerry, though.
JamuncaJanuary 25, 2007 - 8:41 pm
Hey, uh, I could be wrong and all, but I think they run flags at half mast for 30 days after a President kicks the bucket… or some such thing… not sure where else I heard that. /sarcasm
AshJanuary 25, 2007 - 8:24 pm
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In The KnowJanuary 25, 2007 - 7:36 pm
After a president’s death, flags are supposed to fly at half-mast for one month.
Federal and State (but not cities or private business) agencies are required to fly the flags at 1/2 mast for 30 days after a presidents death. Many just follow suit. They should go back up Monday morning!
I’ve been asking the same question. I wonder if there’s some kind of protocol when a former prez dies that the flag have to fly at half-mast for 90 days or sumthing.
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It’s half staff. It’s only half mast on a ship. Unless I am wrong, which I usually am.
Sure, got it, but isn’t that almost Hirohito-like leader worship?
I guess that’s one day for each month he served as President, plus an extra day for for good luck. Not for Gerry, though.
Hey, uh, I could be wrong and all, but I think they run flags at half mast for 30 days after a President kicks the bucket… or some such thing… not sure where else I heard that. /sarcasm
thanks everybody! you guys rock!
After a president’s death, flags are supposed to fly at half-mast for one month.
For more information, check this out: http://www1.va.gov/opa/feature/celebrate/halfstaf.asp
The Truth died at 9 p.m., Tuesday.
Federal and State (but not cities or private business) agencies are required to fly the flags at 1/2 mast for 30 days after a presidents death. Many just follow suit. They should go back up Monday morning!
They stay there for 30 days after a prez dies. At least I think that’s it.
Bushwhacker ordered a 30-day mourning period for Ford. That’s why the flag is at half staff.
it hasn’t been 30 days from the start of the official mourning period.
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And, just to show that Dubya actually got something right:
from the US Flag Code, Title 4, Chapter 1, Section 7, Paragraph (m)
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=browse_usc&docid=Cite:+4USC7
"The flag shall be flown at half-staff 30 days from the death of the President or a former President"
When a president dies and people are ordered to fly their flags at half-staff, it’s for 30 days…
"30 days at half staff after the death of a former President…"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_staff#United_States
federal law sez the flag has to be flown at half-staff for 30 days after the death of a current or former president.
They are flown at half-staff for 30 days.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-staff#United_States
Flags are at half-staff because President Bush ordered that they be flown thusly for 30 days following the death of President Ford.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/12/20061227-1.html
I’ve been wondering myself so I looked it up at whitehouse.gov – 30 days is what Pres. Bush has requested. It should be over soon.
I’ve been asking the same question. I wonder if there’s some kind of protocol when a former prez dies that the flag have to fly at half-mast for 90 days or sumthing.