Read this and decide if a pop singer fits with these for whom/what the flag is flown half staff:
"Federal guidelines state the flag should be flown at half-staff at the following dates/times:
May 15 – Peace Officers Memorial Day, unless it is the third Saturday in May,
Armed Forces Day, full-staff all day[43]
Last Monday in May – Memorial Day (until noon)
July 27 – Korean War Veterans Day (expired 2003 − reinstated 2009)[44][45]
September 11 – Patriot Day[46]
First Sunday in October – Start of Fire Prevention Week.[47][48]
December 7 – National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day [49]
For 30 days – Death of a president or former president
For 10 days – Death of a vice president, Supreme Court chief justice/retired chief justice, or speaker of the House of Representatives.
From death until the day of interment – Supreme Court associate justice, member of the Cabinet, former vice president, president pro-tempore of the Senate, or the majority and minority leaders of the Senate and House of Representatives. Also for federal facilities within a state or territory, for the governor.
On the day after the death – Senators, members of Congress, territorial delegates or the resident commissioner of the commonwealth of Puerto Rico
Further, the flag is always flown at half-staff at three locations in the United States.
These locations are The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier; Arlington Cemetery; and the Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor.
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