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Ärende: Press Release (070417) for Tue, 2007 Apr 17
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Honoring the Victims of the Tragedy at Virginia Tech
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For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary April 17, 2007

Honoring the Victims of the Tragedy at Virginia Tech A Proclamation by the
President of the United States of America

˙˙White House News
Our Nation grieves with those who have lost loved ones at Virginia Tech. We
hold the victims in our hearts. We lift them up in our prayers, and we ask
a loving God to comfort those who are suffering.

As a mark of respect for the victims of the senseless acts of violence
perpetrated on Monday, April 16, 2007, 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, Sunday, April 22, 2007. 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 seventeenth day of
April, in the year of our Lord two thousand seven, and of the Independence
of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-first.

GEORGE W. BUSH

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