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Flags will be lowered to half-staff on Wednesday, May 15. Gov. Greg Abbott's website offers flag status for such occasions. ... Why is the US flag at half-staff or half-mast today, May 15, 2024 ...
Yes, state and U.S. flags were at half-staff today, May 15. Here’s why: May 15 is Peace Officers Memorial Day and May 12 through 18 is Police Week, and President Joe Biden issued a proclamation ...
The Finnish flag flying at half-mast after the 2011 Norway attacks The American flag flying at half-mast in Buchenwald, Thuringia, Nazi Germany, on 19 April 1945 after the death of US President Franklin Roosevelt. Half-mast or half-staff (American English) refers to a flag flying below the summit of a ship mast, a pole on land, or a pole on a ...
President Joe Biden ordered all United States Flags through Aug. 4 to remember the life of U.S. Representative Jackie Walorski. Why flags are flying at half-staff, half-mast in the US today Skip ...
According to the book Flags Over California, published by the California Military Department, the star on the flag recalled the 1836 California Lone Star Flag. Todd, in an 1878 letter to the Los Angeles Express, states that the star was drawn using blackberry juice and in recognition of the California Lone Star Flag. The bear was designed to be ...
Today is the 23rd anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Flags around the nation will be lowered to commemorate the day. ... President Joe Biden asked that all flags be lowered to half-staff on ...
In honor of Rosalynn Carter, President Joe Biden ordered flags to be flown half-staff starting Saturday, Nov. 25 through Wednesday, Nov. 29.
U.S. and state flags in Washington flew at half-staff Tuesday for former state Rep. Georgette Valle, who died July 10 at age 99. Gov. Jay Inslee issued the directive for the longtime King County ...