Patriot Day, 2020 — Historical Half-Staff Archive
Historical archive — 2020. This records a past observance and is not a current half-staff notice.
Patriot Day, 2020
The official Federal Register document is Proclamation 10072 of September 10, 2020, issued by President Donald J. Trump. It was published in the Federal Register on 2020-09-18.
Half-staff period and scope
September 11, 2020, Patriot Day.
Annual statutory observance. The proclamation calls on United States departments, agencies, and instrumentalities to display the flag at half-staff, and invites governors, organizations, and individuals to join the observance.
Official proclamation
Open or download the official proclamation PDF from GovInfo
Read the Federal Register source
Signature-page preview
Page 2 of the official PDF is reproduced below. It contains a reproduced presidential signature, not an original wet-signed scan. Select the image to open the complete official PDF.
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