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Flags at Half-Staff Through Veterans Day: Obama

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

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 6, 2009 11:55 AM CST

(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...   Read full story »

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