Half-staff American flag

[pmb]

It seems like the flag has been flying at half-staff a lot recently. I haven't been able to dig up any data on how often this has been the case, so I'm asking you all: Do you know of any reference where I can see when, for the past few years, the flag was to be flown at half-staff? I see it so often that we are either living in extremely tragic times, or the whole thing is getting trivialized. Perhaps a bit of both, or perhaps I just remember the half-staff times because they stick out in my mind, but I really don't know. Anybody got any data?

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[ailie.livejournal.com]

I did a Google advanced search like this:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=flag+%22half-staff%22+site:gov&hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all
which gives the results for the last year, but individually.

It seems that a lot of places aren't following these regulations:
http://www1.va.gov/opa/feature/celebrate/halfstaf.asp