Updated at 8:16 a.m., Friday, May 25, 2007
State flags to fly at half-staff Memorial Day morning
Advertiser Staff
Gov. Linda Lingle has ordered state flags at all state and county buildings to be flown at half-staff on Monday, Memorial Day, from sunrise to noon, out of respect for veterans who have sacrificed their lives for this nation.Flags will return to full-staff from noon until sunset as a "symbol of our living nation," according to a news release.
The governor's order is in conjunction with President Bush's order that all U.S. flags be flown at half-staff on Memorial Day.
Lingle will deliver remarks at the annual Governor's Memorial Day Service and lay a wreath at the Memorial Plaza Monument at the Hawai'i State Veterans Cemetery in Kane'ohe in honor of the service and sacrifices made by generations of Hawai'i men and women in order to protect our nation's freedom and democracy. The service will begin at 1:15 p.m.
A Memorial Day ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl is scheduled to start at 8:30 a.m.
