Jimmy Carter died at 100 years old on Dec. 29. He was the 39th President of the United States.
He’s been out of office for more than four decades, but he and his wife seemed like quality human beings who genuinely cared about other people and loved their country.
It’s a federal law that all government buildings, public schools and offices fly their flags at half-staff for 30 days as a sign of mourning for the passed former leader.
It’s not technically required for flags that fly over private establishments like businesses or homes to be at half-staff, but it’s typically just good protocol to fly the flag at half-staff.
Gov. Bill Lee has called for two days to fly the flag high to mark the inauguration of Donald Trump as the new President and then return the flags to half-staff for President Carter.
We’ll let others who are more passionate from either side of the aisle argue that decision in Nashville.
But we do encourage public schools and offices to try to remember to lower the flags to honor President Carter’s memory.
He spent four years doing his best trying to lead the free world. Some readers my disagree with all he did, and that’s OK. But you can’t deny the pressure one has to fill sitting behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office making the decisions that are made there.
So while we’ve still got nearly two weeks to lower the flags, hopefully more people locally will do so.
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