Official Notice For Flags this Weekend: While we recognize that your flags may already be at half-staff to honor Staff Sergeant Shannon Smith, we wanted to issue this order so that we may honor the life and service of Specialist Zachary T. Myers, who passed while serving our country. Thank you for your observance. Please find attached and in text below a message from Governor Strickland. The order directs that the flags of the United States of America and the State of Ohio shall be flown at half-staff upon all public buildings and grounds throughout Delaware and Franklin Counties from sunset Friday, September 18 to sunrise Monday September 21, 2009. This order has been issued to honor the life and service of Specialist Zachary T. Myers. Text of Flag Order: September 18, 2009 In honor of the life and service of Specialist Zachary T. Myers, I hereby proclaim, by the authority vested in me as Governor of the State of Ohio by the Ohio Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, that the flags of the United States of America and the State of Ohio shall be flown at half-staff upon all public buildings and grounds throughout Delaware and Franklin Counties from sunset Friday, September 18, to sunrise Monday, September 21, 2009. On This 18th Day of September, 2009 Ted Strickland Governor