FLAGS FLY HIGH DESPITE PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION

KING FLAG PROCLAMATION IGNORED

By Michael Horne

February 7^th 2006, 1 p.m.

The enforcement of the Presidential Proclamation calling for flags to be flown at half-staff today, February 7^th, 2006, in honor of Coretta Scott King has been spotty, at best, from those flags visible from the milwaukeeworld.com vantage point high above the city's downtown.

As of noon, Marquette University, the Wisconsin Center District, the Milwaukee County Courthouse, Rockwell Automation and the Wisconsin Club all had their flags at half-staff.

However, public buildings including the Police Administration Building, City Hall, the Milwaukee Public Museum and the Milwaukee Public Library continue to fly the flags at the tops of their respective poles. [Update --2:15 p.m. The Milwaukee Public Library has lowered its flag. --Ed.]

The flags also fly high today at private buildings including the Milwaukee Center, the Hyatt Regency Hotel and the Catholic Knights building.

The presidential proclamation, reprinted below, asks that flags be flown at half staff until sundown – so there is still time for the parties above to remedy their lack of respect to the memory of a prominent American.

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As a mark of respect for the memory of Coretta Scott King, I hereby order, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, that on February 7, 2006, the day of her interment, the flag of the United States shall be flown at half staff at the White House and upon all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions until sunset on such day. I also direct that the flag shall be flown at half-staff for the same period at all United States embassies, legations, consular offices, and other facilities abroad, including all military facilities and naval vessels and stations.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this sixth day of February, in the year of our Lord two thousand six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirtieth.

GEORGE W. BUSH