*Administration of Barack Obama, 2013 *

**Proclamation 9020—Honoring the Victims of the Tragedy at the Washington Navy Yard **

*September 16, 2013 *

*By the President of the United States of America *

*A Proclamation *

As a mark of respect for the victims of the senseless acts of violence perpetrated on September 16, 2013, at the Washington Navy Yard, 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 20, 2013. 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 sixteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord two thousand thirteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-eighth.

BARACK OBAMA

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:15 a.m., September 18, 2013]

NOTE: This proclamation was published in the *Federal Register* on September 19.

*Categories:* Proclamations : Washington Navy Yard, honoring the victims of the tragedy*.*

*Subjects:* District of Columbia : Washington Navy Yard shootings; Holidays and special observances : Honoring the victims of the tragedy at the Washington Navy Yard; Navy, Department of the : Washington Navy Yard shootings.

*DCPD Number:* DCPD201300633.