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Flags flying at half-staff |
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July 21, 2015 |
President Barack Obama today issued a
proclamation ordering that flags be flown at
half-staff beginning today until sunset on
Saturday, July 25. Flags will be lowered in
remembrance of the five U.S. service members who
were killed last week by a gunman at a military
recruiting center in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Many flags throughout Boundary County have been
lowered to half-staff.
President Obama's official proclamation, issued
today, is reprinted here:
"Our thoughts and prayers as a Nation are with
the service members killed last week in
Chattanooga. We honor their service. We offer
our gratitude to the police officers and first
responders who stopped the rampage and saved
lives. We draw strength from yet another
American community that has come together with
an unmistakable message to those who would try
and do us harm: We do not give in to fear. You
cannot divide us. And you will not change our
way of life.
"We ask God to watch over the fallen, the
families, and their communities. As a mark of
respect for the victims of the senseless acts of
violence perpetrated on July 16, 2015, in
Chattanooga, Tennessee, 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, July
25, 2015. 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 twenty-first day of July, in the year of
our Lord two thousand fifteen, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the
two hundred and fortieth."
Barack Obama
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