Tell Us The Mission

Tell Us The Mission is organizing a petition to Congress that the flag be flown at half-staff for one day whenever a service member dies at war.

On May 1, 2003, aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of San Diego, President George W. Bush gave his infamous “Mission Accomplished” speech stating major combat operations in Iraq had ended. Today, four years later, nationally renowned spoken word artist Steven Connell joins forces with Robert Greenwald and Brave New Foundation to ask what, exactly, was ever accomplished.

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Just days before this video and website was to go online, an American soldier serving in Afghanistan wrote an op-ed piece which has since stirred up a national debate. The soldier questioned why we do not lower the flag to half-staff when a soldier dies at war. We at Brave New Foundation were so inspired by his question, and were so unanimously on one side of the debate, that we decided to begin a petition to amend the US Flag Code.

The petition can be signed here.

(h/t C&L)