Flags engender such loyalty and pride, they often become very personal emblems with quirky or quaint nicknames: Old Glory, ...

Flags all around Iowa will be lowered to half-staff Friday to remember a former Iowa Senate president who died this week.

All flags on state property were to be flown at ... and events for which flags are flown at half-staff in the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs website.

For the second day in a row, flags around Iowa will be at half-staff. Today they're lowered to honor a former attorney general who died in February.

Maura Healey announced that state and national flags will fly at half-staff in Massachusetts today, March 7 to honor United States Navy Ensign ... flags at all Massachusetts state buildings ...