[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 75 (Thursday, April 19, 2007)]
[Presidential Documents]
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Part II





The President





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Proclamation 8126--Honoring the Victims of the Tragedy at Virginia Tech
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 The President

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                Proclamation 8126 of April 17, 2007

                
Honoring the Victims of the Tragedy at Virginia 
                Tech

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                Our Nation grieves with those who have lost loved ones 
                at Virginia Tech. We hold the victims in our hearts. We 
                lift them up in our prayers, and we ask a loving God to 
                comfort those who are suffering.

                As a mark of respect for the victims of the senseless 
                acts of violence perpetrated on Monday, April 16, 2007, 
                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, 
                Sunday, April 22, 2007. 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 
                seventeenth day of April, in the year of our Lord two 
                thousand seven, and of the Independence of the United 
                States of America the two hundred and thirty-first. 
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. 07-1984
Filed 4-18-07; 8:53 am]
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