Half-Staff Nation: The United States of Slaughter

Eric F. Frazier
4 min readApr 25, 2021

Should President Biden just go ahead and order all U.S. flags to be flown at half-staff until further notice? Without a doubt, the next mass shooting is coming any day. They now occur so frequently the memorials blur together.

Between honoring the more than half a million Americans who have died of COVID-19, the victims of mass shootings, and the late former vice president Walter Mondale, Biden has ordered flags lowered to half-staff six times since he was inaugurated.

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Eric F. Frazier

Eric F. Frazier is an independent writer, editor, book reviewer and co-author of GPS Declassified: From Smart Bombs to Smartphones.