Flags at Half-Staff
Updated: 5/13/2008
Gov. Steve Beshear has directed that flags at all state office buildings remain at half-staff in honor of a Fort Campbell soldier who died May 11 supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
According to the Department of Defense, Cpl. Jessica A. Ellis, 24, of Bend, Ore., who died in Baghdad, Iraq, of wounds suffered when her vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device. She was assigned to the 2nd Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.
Flags will remain at half-staff until sunset on the day of the funeral, for which arrangements are pending.
Individuals, businesses, organizations and government agencies are encouraged to join in this tribute by lowering flags to half-staff.
Flags are currently at half-staff in honor of Pfc. Ara T. Deysie and Sgt. Isaac Palomarez, who died May 9 supporting Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. Pfc. Deysie was assigned to the 1st Squadron, 61st Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, Ky. Sgt. Palomarez was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, Ky.
| Flags are ordered to half-staff when the governor learns of the deaths of Kentucky’s sons and daughters serving in the United States Armed Forces and of soldiers from units at Fort Campbell and Fort Knox. Flags are returned to full-staff at sunset the day these soldiers are interred. This page will be updated only when a change in flag status occurs. |