WASHINGTON -- Flags across the state flew at half staff yesterday.

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Well, almost all of them.

Governor Christine Gregoire ordered all flags to fly low in honor of Carlo Alfonso, a Spokane soldier killed in Iraq.

However, a handful of places say they never got the message.

The Medical Lake City Hall and high school and the Spokane County Courthouse all had their flags raised high.4

The mandate only applies to state officies, but many KREM 2 News viewers said that shouldn't matter.

KREM 2 News called these places to see what had happened, but everyone said that the flags were either someone else's responsibility, or that they didn't get the memo.