This matter specifically concerned the very top portion of some .gov websites displaying a small, icon-sized American flag with the words, "An official website of the United States government." ...

The American flag, it seems, will be flying at half-staff ... You can tell a lot about person by the way they handle symbolic gestures, those small but significant actions that signal honor ...

By Michael Levenson A small group of protesters hung an inverted American flag — historically used as a sign of distress — off the side of El Capitan, a towering rock formation in Yosemite ...