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June 6th, 2007, 10:36 AM
Today the American Humanist Association called on individual Americans as well as institutions to fly American flags at half staff until the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan end.
"This will honor our fallen troops and remind us of the human cost of war," said Mel Lipman, president of the American Humanist Association. "It will be an ever-present stimulus to help people remember those who have died."
Individual humanists began asking for this campaign immediately after reading news reports about U.S. Army Sergeant Jim Wilt of Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. On April 23 Wilt wrote how he found it ironic that flags were flown at half-staff nationwide for the victims of the recent killings at Virginia Tech yet they aren't lowered even on military bases for the deaths of U.S. soldiers.
http://www.americanhumanist.org/press/halfmast.php.
"This will honor our fallen troops and remind us of the human cost of war," said Mel Lipman, president of the American Humanist Association. "It will be an ever-present stimulus to help people remember those who have died."
Individual humanists began asking for this campaign immediately after reading news reports about U.S. Army Sergeant Jim Wilt of Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. On April 23 Wilt wrote how he found it ironic that flags were flown at half-staff nationwide for the victims of the recent killings at Virginia Tech yet they aren't lowered even on military bases for the deaths of U.S. soldiers.
http://www.americanhumanist.org/press/halfmast.php.