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Historical archive — 2017. This records a past observance and is not a current half-staff notice. Prayer for Peace, Memorial Day, 2017 President Donald J. Trump issued Proclamation 9617 of May 24, 2017. The Federal Register published this document on 2017-05-31. Half-staff period and scope Until noon on May 29, 2017, Memorial Day. Annual Memorial Day observance and presidential proclamation. The official text records the call for prayer for permanent peace and the half-staff observance. Of …

Historical archive — 2017. This records a past observance and is not a current half-staff notice. Peace Officers Memorial Day and Police Week, 2017 President Donald J. Trump issued Proclamation 9611 of May 15, 2017. The Federal Register published this document on 2017-05-18. Half-staff period and scope May 15, 2017, Peace Officers Memorial Day. Annual observance. The proclamation cites the congressional authorization for Peace Officers Memorial Day and Police Week. It calls on state and te …

Historical archive — April 2017. This is a past presidential directive, not a current half-staff notice. Honoring the Memory of John Glenn President Donald J. Trump issued Proclamation 9588 on April 5, 2017. It directed the United States flag to be flown at half-staff on the day of John Glenn’s interment, until sunset. The order covered the White House, federal public buildings and grounds, military posts and naval stations, federal naval vessels, and the specified United States faci …

Historical — 2015. Not a current half-staff notice. FORTISVEX is an independent publisher, not a government agency. The official proclamation is reproduced separately from our explanatory context. National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, 2015: Historical Half-Staff Record The 2015 Pearl Harbor proclamation marks seventy-four years since the December 7, 1941, attack. Obama’s text remembers military and civilian lives lost and honors those who served afterward. It connects that remembra …

Historical — 2015. Not a current half-staff notice. FORTISVEX is an independent publisher, not a government agency. The official proclamation is reproduced separately from our explanatory context. Honoring the Victims of the Attack in San Bernardino, California: Historical Half-Staff Record President Barack Obama issued Proclamation 9377 following the gun violence in San Bernardino, California, on December 2, 2015. Its purpose is to honor the victims through a defined United States half-s …