Colorado's flags will fly at half-staff indefinitely to honor Vice President Dick Cheney, who died Nov. 3 .

Gov. Jared Polis ordered flags lowered on Nov. 4, following the White House doing the same.

In keeping with past practices , the flags will stay lowered until sunset on the day of interment for Cheney. That date has yet to be announced.

This is the second extended lowering in Colorado in two months. The state-mandated Sept. 11 lowering was extended for the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk .

Cheney, 84, died from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, according to his family . His career in government and politics included winning election to Congress six times from Wyoming, before becoming secretary of defense from 1989 to 1993 und

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