Flags Will Be at Half-Staff Friday to Honor 9/11 Victims

Flags will be lowered to half-staff at all state buildings throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on the 14th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Gov. Charlie Baker has ordered that the United States flag and the Commonwealth flag be lowered to half-staff at all state buildings on Friday, Sept. 11 in honor of the individuals who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001 and the Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice in the wars that followed.

Two hundred and six Massachusetts residents were killed in the attacks.

On the morning of Thursday, Sept. 11, 2001, four coordinated attacks by al-Qaeda took the lives of thousands. Four planes were highjacked and used as part of the attack. Two of the planes originated out of Boston’s Logan airport that morning -- American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, which crashed into the north and south towers of the World Trade Center. A third plane, American Airlines Flight 77, originating out of Dulles, crashed into the Pentagon, while United Airlines Flight 93, originating from New Jersey, and then diverted by hijackers and headed for Washington, DC crashed into a field in Pennsylvania after passengers tried to regain control of the aircraft.

This gubernatorial order to lower flags to half staff applies to city halls and town halls throughout the state, other state-owned or state-controlled buildings and all state military installations.

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