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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s chief of communications, Drew Hammill, tweeted Aug. 26 at 5:30 p.m. ET that Pelosi ordered the flags at the U.S. Capitol to be flown at half-staff.
“Since no one has called for the flags to be flown at Half Mast in honor of our Marines who lost their lives on American soil...I propose we fly them Half Mast on Facebook...won’t you join me!” the Aug. 26 Facebook post reads.
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The claim that no one has called for flags to be flown at half-staff in honor of fallen Marines is FALSE. Across the country, flags are flying at half-staffin honor of the service members and Afghans killed Thursday in Kabul. Plans to do so were already underway when the widespread post was first shared.
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At 6:07 p.m. Aug. 26, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced that flags at the White House and other federal properties would remain at half-staff through Aug. 30 to honor those killed in “senseless acts of violence” in Kabul.
Dozens of copies of the post are gaining virality, too. In the comments of another post, the Facebook user who shared it added that the post refers to the Marines who died in Afghanistan after a bomb exploded at the Kabul airport. Commenters appear to be referencing those deaths as well.
A number of governors have made similar orders to fly their flags at half-staff, some occurring before the post was made and some after.
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Several high profile politicians called for flags across the country to be flown at half-staff in honor of the lives lost in Afghanistan.
The post has circulated online since 2016 and asks Facebook users to honor Marines who lost their lives specifically on American soil, despite the context in which it’s currently being shared. The original post was likely referring to the killing of four Marines in Tennessee in July 2015.
After the deaths of at least 13 U.S. service members in Afghanistan on Aug. 26, social media users are posting photos online of flags at half-staff
It wrongly references deaths "on American soil" when no such deaths occurred recently. And it's wrong about half-staff orders in the U.S. – flags across the country are flying at half-staff in honor of those killed, and plans to do so were already underway when the post was first shared.
