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.