Flags to fly at half-staff to honor young victimsAngela Hill
capital of Canada, Jan. 9, 2025. Flags at all Government of Canada buildings and establishments flew at half-mast from sunrise to sunset on Thursday to commemorate former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. (Photo by Min Chen/Xinhua)
Flags fly at half-mast at the German Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, Dec. 21, 2024. German Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser ordered Saturday morning that all flags at all federal buildings be flown at half-mast nationwide to mourn the victims of a tragic attack at a Christmas ma...
Acting New Jersey Gov. Kim Guadagno has ordered flags at all state buildings to be flown at half-staff to honor an Army soldier from Palisades Park who went missing in action in Vietnam in 1969. The flags will be lowered Thursday in tribute to Army Sgt. 1st Class Gunther Wald, whose re...
Governor Hutchinson Orders Flags to Fly At Half-Staff in Memory of Officer Kevin Apple Governor Asa Hutchinson has ordered the United States flag and the Arkansas flag to be lowered to half-staff in tribute to the memory of Pea Ridge Police Officer Kevin Apple. Flags are to remain ...
Governor Mark Gordon has ordered both the United States and Wyoming flags to fly at half-staff beginning November 25, 2023, until sunset, on the day of interment as a mark of respect for the memory of former First Lady Rosalynn Carter. Carter died November 19 at the age of ...
DENVER (AP)- Flags have been ordered to fly at half-staff across Colorado on Wednesday in honor of a Denver soldier killed earlier this month in Afghanistan. The Pentagon says Army Staff Sgt. Liam Nevins of Denver was killed Sept. 21 during combat operations. ...
Governor Walz has ordered all U.S. and Minnesota flags to fly at half-staff immediately in honor of the life and legacy of Senator Dianne Feinstein.
President Trump on Thursday announced he's ordering flags at all federal buildings and national monuments to fly at half-staff over the next three days in honor of the tens of thousands of Americans who have died from COVID-19. Earlier Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate ...
2.“下半旗”除了可以用flags fly at half-mast表达之外,用flags fly at half-staff也是可以的。 为什么会用mast和staff这两个词呢?因为mast本意是“桅杆”,后来也用来指“旗杆”,而staff其实是flagstaff的缩写,flagstaff相当于flagpole,本身就是“旗杆”的意思。