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 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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