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flag at half-mast

A flag at half-mast is the flag which I raised below than the top of the flagpole to express grief.

The thing which changed into the method how a half bottom did a national flag as a stake so that marine, custom to attach a mourning badge to the national flag which was a method to express grief in a ship (a flag at half-mast) did once.
General what I do with a flag at half-mast when it is carried out without being limited on the sea now and raises a flag at half-mast as a general rule to show grief, and it is not possible for the raising of the flag at half-mast.

I raise a flag to the top of the flagpole, and it is performed by lowering it in the half-staff of the flagpole in the back.
It is a range of a half of the flagpole, and it is quite said the half-staff from one side of the flag that it should be a position to know to be a flag at half-mast.
On the contrary, when I do not assume it a flag at half-mast, I raise it in the top in the structure of the flagpole in a possible range and fix it, and it is said that you should raise it so that I am not misunderstood by others when it is a flag at half-mast.

When I take down a flag at half-mast, I take it down after raising a flag to the top of the flagpole again again.

The raising method mentioned above is custom, and it is a part of the international courtesy (a protocol) about the handling of the national flag.
But there is it when it establishes a law, the rule that I stipulated about a raising method depending on a country and an organization.

A national flag is used in many cases.
Besides it, there are the cases that, in addition, the flags of the group are used for such as the flag of the self-governing bodies such as the metropolis and districts or cities, towns and villages / the state, overseas territory / colonies non-independent local flag, school flag, a party flag, a company flag.
In addition, in the country maintaining the Royal Family and a noble system, the flag which treated a's own crest like the royal standards is used for a flag at half-mast.

There is not the rule that stipulated the period when you should raise a flag at half-mast in a nation.
Each ministries and government offices carry out notification in the engine of the getting out departure from country by the decision of the cabinet or the agreement of each ministries and government offices each time, and there can be the thing that I ask relations engine for cooperation.