{"id":1498,"date":"2009-11-06T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/06\/lower-the-flags-please"},"modified":"2009-11-06T21:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T21:04:00","slug":"lower-the-flags-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1498","title":{"rendered":"Lower the flags &#8230; please"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/flagathalfstaff.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401100987751185986\" src=\"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/f080a-flagathalfstaff.jpg?w=191\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Obama today declared that flags flying on federal property will be lowered through Veterans Day. Gov. Perry on Thursday issued a flag-lowering declaration for state property through the weekend.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The declarations, of course, are in honor of the tragedy at Fort Hood this week, when at least a dozen people were killed in a shooting rampage.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But guess what? Not everyone in Amarillo is abiding by the declarations.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A caller phoned today to complain that City Hall hadn&#8217;t lowered its flags. A quick call to the city confirmed, though, that the flags had been lowered as directed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I get that private property owners aren&#8217;t obligated to lower their flags to half staff; the declarations affect only government property. But the horror that befell Fort Hood affects all Americans. It has been seared into our national soul.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We all owe the men and women injured or killed in this tragic event the respect of a grateful nation. For that matter, we should lower the flags in honor of <em>all <\/em>the brave soldiers at Fort Hood who endured the terror of those horrifying hours.<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama today declared that flags flying on federal property will be lowered through Veterans Day. Gov. Perry on Thursday issued a flag-lowering declaration for state property through the weekend. The declarations, of course, are in honor of the tragedy at Fort Hood this week, when at least a dozen people were killed in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1498\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lower the flags &#8230; please<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}