Word: half-staff
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...Rhineland celebration ended right there. Old Paul immediately canceled the rest of his trip, donated money to a relief fund, motored back to Berlin, rested his weary feet. In the morning, every jubilant German flag that had fluttered from Holland to Switzerland was at half-staff. Crepe shrouded triumphal arches throughout the Rhineland...
...expression of the public's sorrow, it is ordered that the flags of the White House and of the several departmental buildings be displayed at half-staff for a period of 30 days and that suitable military and naval honors may be rendered on the day of the funeral...