Your Fidgety-Fadgety, Gidgety-Gadgety Girl (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} gadget_girl) wrote in spprs, |
i had been wondering the same damn thing...
from here:
In the event of the death a present or former official of the government of any State, territory, or possession of the United States, the Governor of that state, territory, or possession may proclaim that the National flag shall be flown at half-staff." The code also includes other related details including the specific length of time during which the flag should be displayed at half-staff, in the event of the death of a "principal figure"(e.g., 30 days for the death of a sitting or former President, 10 days for the death of a sitting Vice-President,etc.).
a full month?!? jesus, in this nation of short-attention-span, a.d.d. bastards, how many people even remembered who it was half staff for even a couple of days after the fact? shit man, i'm sure more than half of the nation either didn't know why it was flying half staff in the first place, or more likely, didn't even notice.
i had thought that bush was the one that changed the rules, for reagan, to make it longer, but that article says it's from 1994, so i guess that's just policy. i probably didn't notice because the only other president i can think of dying was reagan, and i assumed then that bush had done something to make it so we would mourn longer. oddly enough, my mistake, it's previous policy that's retarded, and not neccessarily bush in this instance.
from here:
In the event of the death a present or former official of the government of any State, territory, or possession of the United States, the Governor of that state, territory, or possession may proclaim that the National flag shall be flown at half-staff." The code also includes other related details including the specific length of time during which the flag should be displayed at half-staff, in the event of the death of a "principal figure"(e.g., 30 days for the death of a sitting or former President, 10 days for the death of a sitting Vice-President,etc.).
a full month?!? jesus, in this nation of short-attention-span, a.d.d. bastards, how many people even remembered who it was half staff for even a couple of days after the fact? shit man, i'm sure more than half of the nation either didn't know why it was flying half staff in the first place, or more likely, didn't even notice.
i had thought that bush was the one that changed the rules, for reagan, to make it longer, but that article says it's from 1994, so i guess that's just policy. i probably didn't notice because the only other president i can think of dying was reagan, and i assumed then that bush had done something to make it so we would mourn longer. oddly enough, my mistake, it's previous policy that's retarded, and not neccessarily bush in this instance.
