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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[amoken.livejournal.com]

There are tons of places that do it on a more local basis. For example, if a local girl is murdered, the town may lower the flags. I've even seen one fire station in one town, and no other buildings, lower the flags to half-mast because a firefighter from that station died (I asked around that time).