Oh yeah, they’ll lower the flags for literally any reason, because the flag has been meaningless for some time.

See also: military cemeteries, and by extension, the military.

Did you know anyone who was honorably discharged can be buried in a military cemetery? Doesn’t matter who. Whether you were a “war hero” (like my grandfathers), you died in war, or if you just partied and fixed trucks in Germany in the sixties (like my stepdad), you can be buried there.

Keep that in mind when someone tries to make them into sacred places. They’re just graveyards, they have no further meaning just because the stones are all the same.

The entire military’s been a scam since the same time period. It’s nice that more people are figuring it out.