North Carolina’s Governor Pat McCrory is reversing himself, ordering flags lowered statewide in honor of seven the Camp Lejeune Marines who died in a training explosion last month at Hawthorne Army Depot. The Governor plans to attend a memorial service at Camp Lejeune Tuesday and has ordered flags lowered for the day.
The order reverses an earlier decision by his office to not lower the flags. McCrory’s office released a statement after the deaths saying there was no “precedent for lowering flags for tragic military accidents.”
The training incident occurred on March 18th when a 60 millimeter mortar tube exploded during a field exercise in the Nevada desert. The blast also wounded another seven Marines and a Hospital Corpsman.
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