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This combination photo shows a worker preparing to lower the U.S. flag to half-staff, left, after lowering the flag, center, and the flag at half-staff on top of the White House on July 20, 2012 after a masked gunman killed 12 people at a midnight showing of the new "Batman" movie in a suburb of Denver.
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So did he get it wrong the first time, or are you supposed to lower it all the way before going half-staff? If not, they should hire someone who doesn't think half-staff just means downsizing..