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Flags were returned to half-staff the next day and stayed there for another eight days. State flags are lowered along with federal orders. U.S. flag code says no other flag should fly higher ...

Eisenhower in 1954, per the National Archives. That proclamation states "that the flag of the United States of America be flown at half-staff on Federal buildings, grounds, and facilities upon the ...

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