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Recommendation to request City Attorney to prepare a resolution acknowledging the sacrifice of the 3,315 men and women and directing that the official flag of the City of Long Beach be lowered to half-staff in their honor and remain lowered until the duration of the Iraq/Afghanistan conflicts as a symbolic gesture of our grief.
DISCUSSION
Flying federal, state, and city flags at half-staff (also referred to as "half-mast" from naval history) is a symbolic gesture of showing grief. Only the President of the United States or the Governor of the State may order the federal and state flags to be at halfstaff to honor the death of a national or state figure. Just last week, President Bush ordered the lowering of the flags at half-staff in honor of the men and women who were murdered on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
The federal flag code does not prohibit the City of Long Beach from lowering its city flag at half-staff.
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SUGGESTED ACTION
Approve recommendation.
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Respectfully Submitted,
Councilwoman Gerrie Schipske, Fifth District
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GERALD R. MILLER |
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