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- THE WHITE HOUSE
- Office of the Press Secretary
- For Immediate Release April 16, 2013
- HONORING THE VICTIMS OF THE TRAGEDY IN BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
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- BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
- A PROCLAMATION
- As a mark of respect for the victims of the senseless
- acts of violence perpetrated on April 15, 2013, in Boston,
- Massachusetts, 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,
- April 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 April, in the year of our Lord
- two thousand thirteen, and of the Independence of the
- United States of America the two hundred and thirty-seventh.
- BARACK OBAMA
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