09-24-2006, 12:48 PM
Walt's Daughter:-
Please don't get angry with this commentary!!
Floating around the site as I sit hear with nothing else to do I noticed that you had posted under the heading Flag Etiquette that the flag should be lowered to HALF MAST under certain conditions.
Regretfully, this is one of my pet peeves and is often used by the news media. I contacted a radio station once and the man giving out the data told me "I'm just reading what they have written down here for me to say and I never knew that!!"
The correct term is HALF STAFF because as I was taught - a MAST is on a ship for it's purpose and it is a STAFF that is used to display the flag.
Sgtleo(taking cover ASAP) 