Friday, August 19, 2011

Tomblin Orders Flags Be Flown At Half-Staff

  • {West Virginia}...Acting Governor Earl Ray Tomblin has ordered all United States and West Virginia flags flying at state buildings and grounds to be lowered to half-staff from dawn to dusk on Saturday, when services for Cpl. James S. Murray, a Shinnston native who died as a prisoner of war in Korea, are scheduled. Murray was a member of Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 38th Infantry, 2nd Infantry Division. He died in captivity during an Allied air raid in April 1951 on a North Korean supply depot next to the Suan Bean prison camp. His remains were identified last December through DNA testing and investigation.