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Flag Status: Full-Staff

Updated: 8/27/2008

 

Kentucky will lower the flag to half-staff at sunrise and raise it to full-staff at sunset on the day of a fallen soldier’s interment. Those who will be honored include:
  • Native Kentuckians who have died in the line of military duty.
  • Any member of the military who is not a native Kentuckian, but has chosen the Commonwealth as his or her official place of residence.
  • All members of the Kentucky National Guard.
  • Any member of the military who deploys from a Kentucky military base into a combat zone and is killed in action.