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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 ...
Flags are flown at half-mast on ships and at naval stations. On shore, flags are flown at half-staff, meaning the flagpole is attached to a building or stuck in the ground.
The flags were flown at half-staff during President Richard Nixon’s inauguration for his second term on Jan. 20, 1973, due to him having lowered them earlier for the death of former President ...
With the inauguration on Jan. 20, that means that flags will be at half-staff when Trump takes office and for the first week of his administration. Who decides when to lower flags? According to the U.S. General Services Administration, the president, a governor and the mayor of the District of Columbia can order U.S. flags to be flown at half ...
Flags are set to be at half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Monday, April 22. Why do flags fly at half-staff? According to USA.gov, the U.S. flag flies at half-staff or at half-mast when the ...
Flags are flown at half-mast on ships and at naval stations. On shore, flags are flown at half-staff, meaning the flagpole is attached to a building or stuck in the ground.
After the death of Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain — with whom Trump had a fractious relationship — in 2018, the Stars and Stripes were briefly lowered to half-staff over the weekend but went back up to full height the following Monday, while flags at the U.S. Capitol and elsewhere stayed at half-staff. The flag was lowered again to ...
The joint resolution calls for the sitting President to issue a yearly proclamation requesting that all U.S. flags be flown at half-staff. The President also calls for a moment of silence ...