Flags lowered for Sen. Robert Byrd will fly at full-staff for July Fourth, then go down again
By APFriday, July 2, 2010
Flags lowered for Byrd will go up for July Fourth
WASHINGTON — Flags flying at half-staff in memory of Sen. Robert Byrd will temporarily return to the tops of their poles for the Fourth of July.
President Barack Obama this week ordered that flags at federal buildings across the nation be flown at half-staff through the day of Byrd’s burial — but he made an exception for Independence Day.
Under the presidential proclamation, the flags will fly high on Sunday, then return to half-staff until sunset Tuesday, the day Byrd is to be buried at Columbia Gardens Cemetery in Arlington, Va., next to his wife of almost seven decades, Erma.
The West Virginia Democrat was the longest-serving U.S. senator. He died Monday at age 92.
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