The Daily Flag

Field Reporter, DaveJ, spotted another story on the half-staff issue. This story from Grand Rapids, MI, shows the division that follows this controversy. In the WZZM13 news video, they talk to the Governor of Michigan and several others about the orders to lower the flag for each soldier killed in Iraq.
WZZM13 - Half-staff controversy
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It’s not mentioned in the federal flag code, but by tradition if you have a flagpole that is too short for the flag to be lowered to half-staff (such as a home flag mounted diagonally off the porch or window facing) then it is respectful to signify honor and mourning by flying a black streamer [...]

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