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Flags at Half-Staff Through Veterans Day: Obama

President calls the move a 'modest tribute' to Fort Hood victims

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(Newser) – President Obama today ordered that American flags at all federal properties be flown at half-staff until Veterans Day—next Wednesday—to honor the people killed at Fort Hood yesterday. The gesture is “a modest tribute to those who lost their lives even as others were preparing to risk their lives for their country,” he said. The president called the massacre “one of the worst mass shootings ever to take place” on a military base, according to the Chicago Tribune.

President Barack Obama walks to the podium in the Rose Garden of the White House today.
President Barack Obama walks to the podium in the Rose Garden of the White House today.   (AP Photo)
The flag flies at half staff in front of the Army's III Corps headquarters at Fort Hood, Texas, today.
The flag flies at half staff in front of the Army's III Corps headquarters at Fort Hood, Texas, today.   (AP Photo)
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BoZo
Nov 6, 09 12:12 PM CST
I'm going to go throw up now. Reply
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freethemall
Nov 6, 09 12:21 PM CST
Yeah, how dare him to be making all these proclamations and stuff!! Who does he think he his, President or something?
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Rocket448
Nov 6, 09 12:39 PM CST
Pay no attention to BoZo. He/she contributes nothing more than deranged, egotistical ramblings.
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DarkFrancis
Nov 6, 09 7:40 PM CST
Why are you going to throw up? Please explain yourself. It can't be that you think you are so well-known that you can merely rattle off on line of thin, toxic pee and expect everyone to understand your brilliance.
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vwsmurfy
Nov 6, 09 12:24 PM CST
YAY for symbolism. It's a piece of cloth with a design on it people. Who cares? Reply
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