MEMORANDUM: Flags at Half-Staff for Staff Sergeant Matthew S. Sitton

MEMORANDUM

TO:                  Kris Parks

                        Division of Facilities and Operations Maintenance

                        Robert S. LaSala, County Administrator

                        Pinellas County

                        Patricia Gerard, Mayor

                        City of Largo

                                               

FROM:            Governor Rick Scott

                        By and through Jesse Panuccio, Acting General Counsel

DATE:             August 10, 2012

RE:                  Flags at Half-Staff

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Staff Sergeant Matthew S. Sitton, of Largo, Florida, died on August 2, 2012, in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.  Staff Sergeant Sitton was assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1^st Battalion, 508^th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82^nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. 

By virtue of the power and authority vested in me by 4 U.S.C. § 7(m), as amended on June 29, 2007, and the laws and Constitution of the State of Florida, I, Governor Rick Scott, hereby proclaim and direct as follows:

1.      All National and State flags shall be flown at half-staff at the County Courthouse of Pinellas County, Florida, and at the City Hall of Largo, Florida, on Saturday, August 11, 2012, in honor of Staff Sergeant Matthew S. Sitton.

2. The National and State flags at the Capitol in Tallahassee, Florida, shall also be flown at half-staff on Saturday, August 11, 2012, in honor of Staff Sergeant Matthew S. Sitton.

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