Flags at half-staff Monday and Tuesday

Flag Lowerings - 12/6/21 (Senator Robert Dole) and 12/7/21 (Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day)

The attached directives include two different flag lowerings. The first is for Monday, December 6, 2021.

Pursuant to the attached Presidential Proclamation, Governor Inslee hereby directs that Washington State and United States flags at all state agency facilities be lowered to half-staff immediately, in honor and remembrance of Senator Robert Joseph Dole.

Flags should remain at half-staff until close of business or sunset on Thursday, December 9, 2021.

Other government entities, citizens and businesses are encouraged to join this recognition.

The second is for Tuesday, December 7, 2021.

Governor Inslee hereby directs that Washington State and United States flags at all state agency facilities be lowered to half-staff Tuesday, December 7, 2021, for National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. 

National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day was created by Congress in 1994 in honor of those Americans killed or injured as a result of the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Flags should remain at half-staff until close of business or sunset on Tuesday, December 7, 2021.

Other government entities, citizens and businesses are encouraged to join this recognition.

Please call 360-902-4118 if you have any questions about these flag lowerings.