No. Governors, stop pandering. For POW/MIA Recognition Day, the third Friday in September, the US flag is not lowered to half-staff. Half-staff is a sign of mourning a death, not just sadness over one who is missing. We don’t know what happened to thousands of missing military. Let’s not assume the worst.
Read here about the redundancy of Governors ordering the flag to Half-Staff here.
Half-staff is literally the flag halfway down the pole, not approximately. Two flags on the same halyard are not lowered to half. For more, read the DrillMaster Study of Half-Staff and Half-Mast here.
When is the American flag flown at Half-Staff?
- For thirty days after the death of a current or former president or president-elect.
- For ten days after the death of a current vice president, current or retired chief justice, or current speaker of the House of Representatives.
- From the day of death until interment of an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, a secretary of an executive or military department, a former vice president, or the governor of a state, territory, or possession.
- On the day of death and the following day for a Member of Congress.
- On Memorial Day until noon.
- Upon presidential proclamation.
- Peace Officers Memorial Day (May 15), unless that day is also Armed Forces Day.
- Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day (December 7).
- Patriot Day (September 11).
- The first Sunday in October for National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Day