I'm not able to fly mine daily, but today I did the standard protocol of half-staff until noon (actually 12:30 because I was on the road) then full staff.
I'm kind of mixed about the constant half-staff thing, since somewhere along the line there was a decision that the flag was only supposed to be flown at half-staff for the loss of a national figure, as it was meant to represent national mourning, not "just" the loss of an individual. i.e. it wasn't appropriate for you to fly your flag at half-staff for the loss of someone important to you. So, if it was inappropriate for me to lower the flag to honor the passing of my father, who served during Korea, and helped land men on the moon, and worked hard and raised a family and always tried to help the people he could help as opposed to the nation mourning some career politician who never did a decent thing in their life except usurp the public,...
Put it this way,... the nation lost a lot more when it lost my dad than it lost when any career politician finally stopped sponging up the nation's wealth and trust. So either we do or we don't. How is the loss of ordinary citizens to a disease suddenly more significant, or even equally significant to the loss of a "national figure,: or the loss of any other citizen?
