Flags at half-staff on Patriot Day
September 11th
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[September 10, 2016]
Sunday,
September 11th, 2016 marks the 15 year anniversary of the 9/11
terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, the
Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93 which crashed in suburban
Pennsylvania.
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Patriot Day serves as a remembrance of the lives lost on that
September morning.
On Patriot Day, the President directs that the American flag be
flown at half-staff at individual American homes, at the White
House, and on all U.S. government buildings and establishments, home
and abroad. The President also asks Americans to observe a moment of
silence beginning at 8:46 AM Eastern time, the time the first plane
struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center that morning.
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