After this weeks bombing at the Boston Marathon prompted employees at a local post office to once again partially lower their American flag in honor of the attacks victims, the flag told reporters Wednesday that it can barely even remember a time when it wasnt flying at half-staff. Honestly, I cant think of the last time I got to fly at the top of the flagpole for any real duration without some new senseless act of violence forcing me down pretty much immediately, said the banner, which pointed to the Newtown massacre, the Aurora shooting, and the Tucson shooting as just a few of the national tragedies that have kept it in the middle of the flagstaff in recent months. Every now and then Ill get the chance to go all the way up the pole, but then the post office guys come out later in the day with these grim looks on their faces and I just know something terrible has happened and its right back to the middle again. And honestly, Id really much rather be at the top of the pole, if it were up to me. Though the flag noted that it would likely continue being flown at half-staff for at least the remainder of the week, it expressed optimism it might get the chance to be displayed at full-summit for possibly a day or two before the next one. 