    [United States Statutes at Large, Volume 132, 115th Congress, 2nd Session]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

    Proclamation 9697 of February 15, 2018

    Honoring the Victims of the Tragedy in Parkland, Florida

    By the President of the United States of America

    A Proclamation

    Our Nation grieves with those who have lost loved ones in the shooting
    at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. As a
    mark of solemn respect for the victims of the terrible act of violence
    perpetrated on February 14, 2018, 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, February 19, 2018. I also direct that the flag
    shall

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    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 fifteenth day of
    February, in the year of our Lord two thousand eighteen, and of the
    Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-
    second.
    DONALD J. TRUMP