Honoring the Victims of the Attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, 48481 [2021-18925]

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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 166 (Tuesday, August 31, 2021)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Page 48481]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-18925]




                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 166 / Tuesday, August 31, 2021 / 
Presidential Documents

[[Page 48481]]


                Proclamation 10240 of August 26, 2021

                
Honoring the Victims of the Attack in Kabul, 
                Afghanistan

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                As a mark of respect for the U.S. service members and 
                other victims killed in the terrorist attack on August 
                26, 2021, in Kabul, Afghanistan, 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, August 30, 
                2021. 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 
                twenty-sixth day of August, in the year of our Lord two 
                thousand twenty-one, and of the Independence of the 
                United States of America the two hundred and forty-
                sixth.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. 2021-18925
Filed 8-30-21; 8:45 am]
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