The reason flags at city buildings are at half-staff

If you drove by a city building this weekend, you may have wondered why the flag was at half-staff. Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels ordered flags flown at half-staff Thursday in memory of Cpl. Jason Bogar, a Seattle native who died this month in Afghanistan. The flags will continue at half-staff through Tuesday morning, city officials said. P-I reporter Mike Barber revealed that the 25-year-old Bogard and the eight American soldiers he died with on June 13 were outnumbered by nearly four to one. They were among a small group of nearly 60 American and Afghan troops in a hellish battle. They resorting to hand-to-hand fighting to prevent at least 200 Taliban militants from overrunning their remote outpost in Afghanistan. It was the deadliest attack on U.S. forces in Afghanistan in three years. Bogar's parents, the Rev. Michael Bogar,... [read full story]