Mayor Won’t Lower Flag to Honor War Dead
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Mayor Gavin Newsom has rebuffed the Board of Supervisors’ request to fly the U.S. flag above City Hall at half-staff on Saturday to honor everyone who has died in the war in Iraq.
Newsom rejected the proposal because the flag is to be flown at half-staff only when a prominent local figure dies or by order of the president or governor, mayor’s spokesman Peter Ragone said.
A massive antiwar protest is scheduled for Saturday to mark the second anniversary of the beginning of the war. Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi called Newsom’s decision “deplorable.”
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