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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 ...
To honor the more than 2,000 lives lost during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has ordered flags to be flown at half-staff Saturday.
Why do flags fly at half-staff? "The United States flag flies at half-staff or at half-mast when the nation or a state is in mourning," USA.gov says. "The president, a state governor, or the mayor ...
Flags will fly at half-staff in memory of U.S. Army Air Forces Sergeant Jack Hohlfeld, who died more than 80 years ago but whose remains were only recently identified and returned to Wisconsin.
U.S. flags typically fly at half-staff in the wake of national tragedies or after deaths of government officials, military members or first responders. They also fly at half-staff on Memorial Day ...
What does half-staff or half-mast mean? Flying the American flag, or a state flag, halfway up the flagpole is a symbol of mourning for the country or state after the death of a government official ...
U.S. flags typically fly at half-staff in the wake of national tragedies or after deaths of government officials, military members or first responders. They also fly at half-staff on Memorial Day ...
Gov. Lee's order requires flags be flown at half-staff at the State Capitol and all state buildings. Is it half-staff or half-mast? On ships and at naval stations ashore, flags are flown at half-mast.