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9 yr old: Why don't we just leave the flags at half-mast... (Original Post)
kpete
May 2018
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montana_hazeleyes
(3,424 posts)1. This is so horribly sad.
To think this is what children of all ages have to be concerned with now. They don't get to be children anymore.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)2. Well, really
it's half staff. A mast can have a flag, but that's on a ship.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)3. Good idea. Leave the flag at half mast till the orange lunatic is in prison
and congress is blue. Then maybe, just maybe, we can get this under control.
Homer Wells
(1,576 posts)4. I'm a 69 year old
I frequently ask the very same question. Actually stay at half mast, and upside down, until the shitgibbon and company are gone.