Honoring the Victims of the Attack in Orlando, Florida

Proclamation 9461 of June 12, 2016

Honoring the Victims of the Attack in Orlando,
Florida

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

As a mark of respect for the victims of the act of
hatred and terror perpetrated on Sunday, June 12, 2016,
in Orlando, Florida, 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, June 16, 2016. 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
twelfth day of June, in the year of our Lord two
thousand sixteen, and of the Independence of the United
States of America the two hundred and fortieth.