[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 31, Number 34 (Monday, August 28, 1995)]
[Pages 1451-1452]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 6817--Death of Those in the U.S. Delegation in Bosnia-
Herzegovina

August 19, 1995

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    As a mark of respect for those who died as a result of the tragic 
accident near Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, which occurred August 19, 
1995, I hereby order, by the authority vested in me as President of the 
United States of America by section 175 of title 36 of the United States 
Code, that the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff 
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, Wednesday, August 23, 1995. 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 nineteenth day 
of August, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-five, and 
of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and 
twentieth.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 10:48 a.m., August 21, 
1995]

Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on August 
22.

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