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# Lower the flags for our troops
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/lower-the-flags-for-our-troops-editor/
- Published: 2007-06-01T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T00:54:31.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Cecilia Rosenthal Santa Monica*

(David) Pisarra’s “We don’t honor the fallen as we should” (May 22) expresses many of my thoughts. For several years, while protesting the war in front of the federal building, I would see the flags and feel they should be at half-mast all the time.

When they finally flew that way for the 32 murdered students, I called my representative, but was told this was not a legislative matter, it was an executive one — meaning the president! Undaunted, I wrote the president, telling him that if the flags could be half-mast for the 32 murdered students, they could certainly be lowered for 3,332 (number at that time) murdered military.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 1, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/060107.pdf?ref=smdp.com)