{"id":295887,"date":"2026-05-16T10:55:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T10:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/295887\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T10:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T10:55:20","slug":"why-are-flags-at-half-staff-in-texas-heres-the-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/295887\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are flags at half-staff in Texas? Here\u2019s the reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flags across Texas and the nation are flying at half-staff Friday in honor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/opinion\/damaged-for-good\/article\/austin-property-damage-claims-denied-22160437.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peace Officers Memorial Day<\/a>, a national observance recognizing law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump this week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2026\/05\/peace-officers-memorial-day-and-police-week-2026\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">issued a proclamation<\/a> ordering U.S. flags to be lowered to half-staff on Friday at federal buildings, military posts, embassies and other government facilities nationwide. State and local governments are also able to join the observance.<\/p>\n<p>For Texans who want to join in and lower flags at their homes or businesses, flag etiquette recommends first raising the flag completely to the top of the pole before lowering it to the halfway point.<\/p>\n<p>At sunset or when taking the flag down, it should again be raised fully before being lowered completely.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Flag Code defines half-staff as positioning the flag midway between the top and bottom of the pole.<\/p>\n<p>Peace Officers Memorial Day is one of several occasions each year when the president\u00a0directs flags to be lowered nationwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other national half-staff observances include:<\/p>\n<p>The flag is also lowered during\u00a0periods of mourning following the deaths of major public figures or national tragedies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flags across Texas and the nation are flying at half-staff Friday in honor of Peace Officers Memorial Day,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-295887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}