Half-Staffing Vertically Mounted Flags

Question: For a vertically hung flag, is there any way to show the appropriate honor? Answer: Good question. Not all flags are intended to be half staffed. When I was at The White House (as a tourist standing outside the fence) during President Ford's funeral, flags all over DC were half-staffed. However, none of the flags mounted on the light poles on The White House grounds were half staffed. The Flag Code is silent on what to do with flags that can not be half staffed. However by tradition, and indeed incorporated into US Army flag regulations, is the practice of attaching a black mourning streamer/ribbon to the top of the flag. You can make it yourself out of black ribbon, or we sell one at the top of this page. Mourning Streamers On a vertically wall mounted flag it seems logical to attach the streamer at the upper left corner of the flag. That position would be the same corner of the canton to which the streamer would attach if the flag were on a vertical pole.