[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 36, Number 41 (Monday, October 16, 2000)]
[Pages 2449-2450]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 7362--Death of American Servicemembers Aboard the United 
States Ship COLE

October 12, 2000

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    As a mark of respect for those who died on the United States Ship 
COLE, I hereby order, by the authority vested in me as President of the 
United States by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
America, 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, Monday, October 16, 2000. 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 twelfth day of 
October, in the year of our Lord two thousand, and of the

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Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-
fifth.
                                            William J. Clinton

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., October 16, 
2000]

Note: This proclamation will be published in the Federal Register on 
October 17.