Never Forget

This Sunday is National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.

U.S. Flag Code directs the President of the United States to order all flags to Half-Staff each December 7th in observance of National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. President Bush has directed flags to half-staff this Sunday.

The U.S. Flag (and all subordinate flags) shall be flown at Half-Staff within the entire United States on Thursday, December 7, 2008 from 8 AM (when Colors are raised) to Sunset (when Colors are retired) in accordance with current U.S. Flag Code (Title 36, United States Code, Subtitle I, Part A, Chapter 1, Section 129):

The President is requested to issue each year a proclamation calling on the people of the United States to observe National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day...and to fly the flag of the United States at half-staff each December 7 in honor of the individuals who died as a result of their service at Pearl Harbor.

Revised U.S. (Federal) Flag Code: http://www.legion.org/documents/legion/pdf/flagcode_07.pdf

So if you run across any governmental buildings (including public schools, city halls, fire stations, police stations, Post Offices, et cetera) or businesses that are not properly flying the Flag please politely ask the person in charge there why they aren't following Flag Etiquette.

Decompression

I have been steering clear of blogging since the day after the election in an attempt to decompress. I didn't want my posts to sound too over the top; the world isn't coming to an end just because of the results of an election.

I will start chiming-in yet again about the world politic in the upcoming days.