These are phylosophical thoughts. This is fine, but the bottom line is that 99.9999999% of people will just plain think it is terrible to say that the flags should not be lowered to half mast for our fallen soldiers- period. Mr. DeVos will likely pay the price of many votes for this. Simple issues like this are something that the average person understands.
I have to agree with you. People will just not like it. He did go back on his statement, and it kinda died down in the media. I don't know what kind of media recognition it's gotten around the rest of the state. Here in Wayne Co. it got a lot b/c Oakland Co. Exec. L. Brooks Patterson backed DeVos up, so it got a little more media attention.