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Originally Posted by zcaveman

The flag should be flown at half staff on 9/11 (Patriot's day) For those of you with the flag pole on the side of the house that means that the flag should be in the slot that puts it on a perpendicular with the ground - not on the diagonal to the house.

This was mentioned in the Daily Sun in a letter to the editor the other day.

Our condo was in a 24-story building, and after 9/11 quite a few folks were trying to figure out how to fly a "flag on a stick" at half mast in the hallways -- the kind of flag you'd have at a 4th of July parade, or stick in the ground outside your house. According to a US government flag website, the proper way to display a flag that can't be raised and lowered or flown parallel to the ground is to tie a black ribbon around the top as a sign of mourning. I can't find the website, so somebody please correct me if the rules have changed.