Friday April 25th, 2025 10:46PM

Flags to fly at half staff Friday for Georgia soldier killed in Iraq

Flags are flying at half staff Friday in Georgia to honor Bluffton native 1st Lt. Weston Lee.

Lt. Lee served the U.S. Army as a paratrooper and was killed while on patrol outside of Mosul, Iraq on April 29, 2017. He was 25.

Governor Nathan Deal issued a proclamation Wednesday stating that flag will be flown at half staff on all state buildings and grounds until sunset on Friday.

Lee was also a graduate of the University of North Georgia in Dahlonega.

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