Flags to be lowered for Navy Yard victims
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September 17, 2013 |
Flags across the nation will be lowered to half
staff Friday to remember the 12 killed and eight
wounded Monday in a shooting rampage at the
Washington Navy Yard.
After the gunfire ended, President Barack Obama
issued the following proclamation:
As a mark of respect for the victims of the
senseless acts of violence perpetrated on
September 16, 2013, at the Washington Navy Yard,
by the authority vested in me as President of
the United States by the Constitution and the
laws of the United States of America, I hereby
order that the flag of the United States shall
be flown at half-staff at the White House and
upon all public buildings and grounds, at all
military posts and naval stations, and on all
naval vessels of the Federal Government in the
District of Columbia and throughout the United
States and its Territories and possessions until
sunset, September 20, 2013. I also direct that
the flag shall be flown at half-staff for the
same length of time at all United States
embassies, legations, consular offices, and
other facilities abroad, including all military
facilities and naval vessels and stations.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand
this sixteenth day of September, in the year of
our Lord two thousand thirteen, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the
two hundred and thirty-eighth. |
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