In my long career in the Army, I learned the importance of placing the flags at half-staff for certain dates throughout the ...

Flags across the nation will return to full-staff this week, following the 30 days at half-staff in honor of the death of ...

An annual memorial was held at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Every fourth Thursday in January, NASA remembers fallen astronauts.

Memorial Day and other national days of remembrance. Previous reporting from Memphis Commercial Appeal explained that on ships and at naval stations ashore, flags are flown at half-mast.

Flags can also be ordered lowered in other circumstances, including a national tragedy or on Memorial Day. Since U.S. flag code states that no flag should fly higher than the American flag on the ...