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Half-staff or half-mast describes a flag flying approximately halfway up a flagpole or ship's mast (though anywhere from one-third to two-thirds of the way up is acceptable, but see below). This is...
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3. The flag, when flown at half-staff, ... 4. When flags of States, cities, or localities, or pennants of societies are flown on the same halyard with the flag of the United States, the latter should always be at the peak. When the flags are flown from adjacent staffs, ... Can the mayor order the US flag to half-mast?
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www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagetiq.html
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There are four specific occasions during which the flag of the United States is flown at half-staff, or at the mid-way point of the staff or pole to which it is attached: ... Burial Flags - Display and Use...
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Subject: Reasons for American Flag to be flown at half-mast; Category: Reference, Education and News > Current Events; Asked by: sts-ga; ... This may not be the most efficient method for knowing when to fly a flag at half-staff but it may help with your question. Flags are flown at half-staff for different reasons,
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When are Flags Flown at Half Mast? ... Nonetheless, whether the origin of the flag being at half-pole is from the Navy or elsewhere, it certainly has become proper to lower it to half-mast (mast is also defined as a vertical or near vertical pole: Webster) in our culture and society today and I see no reason to change it.
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www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/xf-half.html
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Closer to NFF's Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania home, Mayor Tom Murphy ordered all flags flown at half-staff to honor the victims of a plane crash. Here again, a well-intentioned gesture, but one for which no authority exists.
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www.usflag.org/nffhalfstaff.html
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NAGA CITY, August 11, 2005 (STAR) By Sheila Crisostomo - All Philippine flags will be flown at half-mast today as former lawmaker, education secretary and presidential candidate Raul Roco is interred in his hometown of Naga City.
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He will be succeeded as monarch by Crown Prince Abdullah, who has been running day-to-day affairs since a stroke debilitated the king in 1995. Prime Minister Helen Clark said today flags would be flown at half mast to mark the king's death.
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Flags flown at half mast are a sign o mourning. ... It is being flown at half-mast to mourn the deaths of the people who died in New York, Washington, and in the airplane in Pennsylvania. Other countries around the world have also ordered their flags flown at half-mast this week.
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