Throughout the city and throughout the country, flags have been lowered to half mast.
On Saturday, the Bahrain state-run news agency announced three days of mourning in that country and ordered flags to be lowered to half-staff there and at its embassies abroad.
Car drivers honk horns and wave flags bearing the country's national red and white colors.
Heading east along the I-81, I catch fleeting glimpses of familiar country music scenes: countless fluttering Stars and Stripes flags, pick-up trucks outside shabby roadhouses.
Waving mostly American flags, hundreds of thousands gathered across the country to rally for immigration changes.
Church services for the two officials killed have been taking place and flags are at half-mast across the country, our correspondent says.
The State Department monitors social media in five languages and flags, for instance, influential figures in a country whom envoys ought to befriend.
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Tuesday was declared a national day of mourning after the tragedy, the worst to hit Nigeria's biggest city for a decade, with flags flying at half mast at government offices across the country.
We believe in building a cohesive society, where Britishness means inspiring people with a love of country, not bullying them with instructions to integrate, or insulting them with cheap 'flags-on-the-lawn' gimmicks.
They have been waving their Scottish flags but we quite surprised to find that a huge chunk of the British team consists of their country cousins.
The flags are already out across the United Kingdom and CNN will be at the heart of action as the country gears up for a long weekend of revelry from June 2-5.
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