[PW] Re: U.S. flag never at half-mast

[Towse]

On 1/4/07, Bradley Scott <bradley.a.scott at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/4/07, project-wombat-request at lists.project-wombat.org
> > My patron asked what locations never fly the flag at half-mast. She had
> > heard of two: the USS Arizona memorial (Pearl Harbor) and the Tomb of
> > the Unknown Soldier. She thinks there are two more.
>
> Given the content of responses to this query, I wonder if the original
> phrasing of the question might have been something like "which
> locations never *lower* the US flag to half-staff."
>
> This would make it something of a trick question.  Locations where the
> flag was always flown at half-staff would never need to lower it to
> that point, unless raising the flag to full height, and subsequently
> lowering it, were part of a prescribed procedure.

Flag etiquette requires that a flag at half-mast|staff be raised to
full height and then lowered. Always. Likewise, when lowered to the
ground, the half-mast|staff flag is raised to full height and then
lowered completely.

-- 
Sal

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