Sir John the Apostate wrote:
Elder J. Golden Pittakos wrote:
I've given up even trying to figure out why they are at half-staff anymore. The way things are going, they might as well cut off the top half of all the flag poles and recycle the metal since the flags never seem to find their way to top anymore.
Careful Pit your going to start another controversy. When putting the flag at half staff, you need to raise it all the way to the top first.

Yeah, but if you just cut that top half off, you'll shorten the trip. The people raising them to half-staff would use less energy doing so and therefor they would reduce the worlds carbon footprint. See how logical everything is?