Stein ordered flags to fly at half-staff June 27 in honor of Cherokee Sheriff Detention Officer Francisco Paul Flattes who was killed in the line of duty Monday, according to a news release from the ...

Gov. Tony Evers ordered flags to fly at half-staff in Wisconsin until July 1 in honor of Milwaukee police officer Kendall ...

Services are planned for the 12th anniversary of the deaths of 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots killed at the Yarnell Hill Fire.

Flags in Iowa will be at half-staff on Saturday, June 28, in honor of a World War II veteran whose remains had been missing ...

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein has ordered all United States and North Carolina flags at state facilities to be lowered to ...

NY flags have been lowered after the tragic death of a woman who was depicted in a movie by Barbara Streisand.

Trump and flags have a history at the White House in Washington and the Winter White House, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach. Here ...

The governors in Minnesota and South Dakota ordered flags to fly at half-staff to remember Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman, ...

In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson issued a presidential proclamation establishing a national Flag Day on June 14, according to the Library of Congress. Both Wilson, in 1916, and President Coolidge, in ...

Why It Matters. The tradition of flying the American flag at half-staff symbolizes national mourning and respect for individuals who have made the ultimate sacrifice in service to the country.

The American flag flies at half-staff when the country or a state is in mourning, according to USA.gov. Flags can be ordered to fly at half-staff by the president, a state governor or the mayor of ...

The American flag flies at half-staff when the country or a state is in mourning, according to USA.gov. Flags can be ordered to fly at half-staff by the president, a state governor or the mayor of ...