| Flags at half-staff on Patriot Day 
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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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