Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper has ordered flags be lowered to half-staff statewide on all public buildings from sunrise until sunset Tuesday, December 18, in honor of U.S. Army Sergeant Jason McClary.  McClary was stationed at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs and has family in Fountain. He will be buried Tuesday in Pennsylvania.

McClary, 24, died December 2 of injuries he sustained from a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. McClary earned two Purple Hearts and three Army Commendation medals while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He is survived by his wife, Lillie and two sons, Jett and Jason.

Flag across the nation are lowered through December 30 to honor former President George H.W. Bush, who died November 30.