Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Flags at Half Staff

While it's certainly a nice gesture for Mayor Cole to order city flags lowered to half staff as a tribute to the death of Springfield mayor Tim Davlin, it violates the Flag Code of the United States (scroll down to section 7-M), which says that only the President of the US or the state governor may order the lowering of the American flag to half staff.

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