Governor Ferguson hereby directs that Washington State and United States flags at all state agency facilities be raised to full-staff on Monday, January 20, 2025, in honor of Inauguration Day.
Flags should return to half-staff at sunrise on Tuesday, January 21, 2025, and should remain at half-staff until the close of business or sunset on Wednesday, January 29, 2025, in continuance of honoring former President Jimmy Carter for 30 days following his death.
Other government entities, individuals, and businesses are encouraged to join this recognition.
Raising the flags to dishonor President Carter is immoral. There is precedent for leafing the flags lowered to honor a past president who has died. Flags were flown at half staff at the inauguration of President Richard Nixon in 1973, which followed the death of former President Harry Truman in Dec. 1972. Only a man with a truly fragile ego would be so selfish that he would demand the country bow down to him is such a way.