Gov. Gregoire orders flags flown at half-staff - Flag lowering honors fallen Marine from Lake Stevens

For Immediate Release: April 9, 2008

OLYMPIA � Gov. Chris Gregoire has directed that flags at all Washington state agency buildings be lowered to half-staff in memory of U. S. Marine Corps Lance Corporal Dustin Lee Canham of Lake Stevens, who died in Djibouti, on March 23.

Last year, Congress amended the U.S. Flag Code to give governors the authority to lower flags when a state resident in the military is killed in the line of duty. Other government entities, citizens and businesses are encouraged to join in this recognition.

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