Proclamation 3243—Display of the Flag of the United States at Half-Staff Upon the Occasion of the Return and Final Interment of Two Unknown Americans Killed in the Second World War and in the Korean Conflict

Whereas on this Memorial Day, in the National Cemetery at Arlington, the remains of two unknown Americans who gave their lives in service overseas during the Second World War and during the Korean conflict, will be interred; and

Whereas these two Unknown Americans represent almost eighty thousand Americans killed in the Second World War and more than eight thousand Americans killed in the Korean conflict whose bodies lie unidentified in resting places abroad; and

Whereas their two caskets will arrive in the City of Washington on May 28, 1958, to lie in state in the rotunda of the United States Capitol until final interment:

Now, Therefore, I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, do hereby direct that the flag of the United States be flown at half-staff on all buildings, grounds, and naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions, and at all United States embassies, legations, consular offices, and other facilities abroad, including all military facilities and naval vessels and stations, when customarily flown, on May 28, May 29, and May 30, 1958.

As a sign of our national gratitude and concern, I also urge my fellow citizens to display our country's flag at half-staff at their homes and other appropriate places during this period.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed.

DONE at the City of Washington this 17th day of May in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-second.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

By the President:

JOHN FOSTER DULLES,

Secretary of State