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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[clipdude.livejournal.com]

Which is a subset of another tragic time that began September 2001.

[bonboard.livejournal.com]

Of course that tragic time didn't really begin then, either, nor did it begin on January 20th 2001, or January 17th 1995, or June 5th 1967, or May 14th 1948...

[clipdude.livejournal.com]

It's a bunch of nested tragedies... yikes!

But I think the recent tendancy to see the flag at half-staff is partly--if not mostly--due to our involvement in Iraq.