re: Independence Hall Flag at Half Staff

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We lower the flag when sex workers in a massage parlor are killed... Lowering the flag has been cheapened to the point that I only pay attention when it is at full staff...

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This. It's gotten to where I'm mildly surprised when it is NOT at half-staff. It used to be a symbolic gesture reserved for only the most significant of events...involving a strong interest for AMERICANS. Sadly, like everything else these days, the gesture has turned into just another means of vapid virtue signaling for any event for which the government wants to signal it's virture.

There's nothing wrong with the US acknowledging the death of the Queen of one of our strongest allies. But to have the flag flying half-staff for the death of, essentially, a ceremonial royal of another country is a bit unnecessary. And to have it flying at half-staff at Independence Hall of all places is beyond absurd given the fact the US was born out of the desire for independence from the British Monarchy. It essentially dilutes the gesture to the eventual point of insignificance (which may be purposeful for some faction of Americans)