Ads by Google Ads by Google

flag protocol

Flags flying at half staff at EOB
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a May 18 Executive Order, Gov. Lemanu P. S. Mauga established guidelines by which the American Samoa Government shall give official recognition following the death of sitting and former officials of the territorial government. These guidelines, according to the order...
Dear Editor, In my 85 years I have seen the American Flag honored and in some cases, abused, but never more so than right here in American Samoa these past years. Each and every time the President or the Governor has ordered the flags to half mast, it is a shameful fiasco, full mast at ASTCA, 1/2...