Honoring the Victims of the Attack in Benghazi, Libya

Proclamation 8861 of September 12, 2012

Honoring the Victims of the Attack in Benghazi,
Libya

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

As a mark of respect for the memory of John Christopher
Stevens, United States Ambassador to Libya, and
American personnel killed in the senseless attack on
our diplomatic facility in Benghazi, 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, September 16,
2012. 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 September, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twelve, and of the Independence of the United
States of America the two hundred and thirty-seventh.