K Lo: I hope our national day of mourning on Friday doesn’t involve flags at half mast. I’ve regarded that as a peculiar tradition. Rather than lowering our flags, wouldn’t it be better if our flagpoles had telescopic extensions on them–so we could actually raise them higher on special occasions? I know, I know, it’s too expensive. But it would be nice to see American flags flying all this week, at full mast. We put ours on front of the house yesterday. I’ll think I’ll put it out again today.