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From: "Eric Peterson" <>
Subject: Re: [SUVCW] Flag Half staff for the VT shootings
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:25:55 -0400
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Mine is already at half staff. I like to think its' that way for the heroic
professor who lost his life delaying the attacker so students could escape.

I have a real problem with so honoring "victims". My viking heritage coming
out I guess.

Eric
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From: "Ernest Everett Blevins" <>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 12:47 PM
Subject: [SUVCW] Flag Half staff for the VT shootings


> This orginally came to me through SAR-Talk.
>
> Ernie
> List Adminstrator
> Elias Moon #2, Kennesaw Mountian #3
> _________
>
> Half staff for the Virginia Tech shootings
>
> Honoring the Victims of the Tragedy at Virginia Tech
> A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America
>
> 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.
>
> GEORGE W. BUSH
>
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