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Obama Orders Flags At Half-Staff To Honor Victims Of Oregon Shooting

The flags will remain at half-staff until sunset on Oct. 6.
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President Barack Obama issued a proclamation Friday ordering flags to be flown at half-staff to honor the victims of the Oregon shooting.

On Thursday, a man embarked on a shooting rampage at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, killing at least nine people.

Below is the full text of Obama's proclamation: 

As a mark of respect for the victims of gun violence perpetrated on October 1, 2015, in Roseburg, Oregon, 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, October 6, 2015. 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 second day of October, in the year of our Lord two thousand fifteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fortieth.

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Students and staff of Umpqua Community College arrive at the Douglas County Fairgrounds Complex where they were offered grief counseling and a bus ride back to campus to pick up their possessions and vehicles on October 2, 2015 in Roseburg, Oregon. The students and staff were evacuated from the campus yesterday when 26-year-old Chris Harper Mercer went on a shooting rampage and killed 9 people and wounded another 7 before he was killed. (credit:Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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Students and staff of Umpqua Community College arrive at the Douglas County Fairgrounds Complex where they were offered grief counseling and a bus ride back to campus to pick up their possessions and vehicles on October 2, 2015 in Roseburg, Oregon. The students and staff were evacuated from the campus yesterday when 26-year-old Chris Harper Mercer went on a shooting rampage and killed 9 people and wounded another 7 before he was killed. (credit:Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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Students and staff of Umpqua Community College arrive at the Douglas County Fairgrounds Complex where they were offered grief counseling and a bus ride back to campus to pick up their possessions and vehicles on October 2, 2015 in Roseburg, Oregon. The students and staff were evacuated from the campus yesterday when 26-year-old Chris Harper Mercer went on a shooting rampage and killed 9 people and wounded another 7 before he was killed. (credit:Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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Police stand watch outside the apartment where 26-year-old Chris Harper Mercer lived on October 2, 2015 in Winchester, Oregon. Yesterday Mercer went on a shooting rampage at Umpqua Community College, killing nine people and wounding another seven before he was killed. After Mercer's death police found six guns and a flak jacket at the school and another seven guns in his home. (credit:Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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Journalists report fom outside the apartment where 26-year-old Chris Harper Mercer lived on October 2, 2015 in Winchester, Oregon. Yesterday Mercer went on a shooting rampage at Umpqua Community College, killing nine people and wounding another seven before he was killed. After Mercer's death police found six guns and a flak jacket at the school and another seven guns in his home. (credit:Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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The Tarzana, California home of Ian Mercer, the father of alleged UCC gunman Chris Harper-Mercer. (credit:Matt Ferner/Huffington Post)
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Police officers stand guard outside the apartment building where the alleged gunman, Chris Harper Mercer, lived in Roseburg, Oregon, on October 2, 2015. The rampage on October 1 at Umpqua Community College left 10 dead and shattered a close-knit rural community in the south of the state. (credit:Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)
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Downtown Roseburg, though small and rural, has come under intense media spotlight in the past 24 hours, and the roads are lined with TV trucks waiting for press conferences and interviews. (credit:Andy Campbell/Huffington Post)
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A sign sits along the road to Umpqua Community College on October 2, 2015 in Roseburg, Oregon. Yesterday 10 people were killed and another seven were wounded on the campus when 26-year-old Chris Harper Mercer went on a shooting rampage. (credit:Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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Media vehicles line the road near Umpqua Community College on October 2, 2015 in Roseburg, Oregon. Yesterday 10 people were killed and another seven were wounded on the campus when 26-year-old Chris Harper Mercer went on a shooting rampage. (credit:Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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A patient is wheeled into the emergency room at Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg, Ore., following a deadly shooting at Umpqua Community College, in Roseburg, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015. (credit:Aaron Yost/Roseburg News-Review/AP)
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People gather at a road block near the entrance to Umpqua Community College, in Roseburg, Ore., Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015, following a deadly shooting at the campus. (credit:Ryan Kang/AP)
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Police search students outside Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015, following a deadly shooting at the southwestern Oregon community college. (credit:Mike Sullivan/Roseburg News-Review/AP)
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Umpqua Community College (credit:Umpqua Community College)

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