Honoring the Victims of the Explosion in West, Texas

Proclamation 8963 of April 24, 2013

Honoring the Victims of the Explosion in West,
Texas

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

As a mark of respect for the memory of those who
perished in the explosion in West, Texas, on April 17,
2013, I hereby order, by the authority vested in me by
the Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, that the flag of the United States shall be
flown at half-staff at all public buildings and grounds
and at all military facilities and naval stations of
the Federal Government in the State of Texas on April
25, 2013.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twenty-fourth day of April, in the year of our Lord two
thousand thirteen, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and thirty-
seventh.