Today is a national day of mourning. What does that mean? “Aol

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Following the news of the transition of former President Jimmy Carter, President Biden announced on January 9 a national mourning day and ordered US flags to fly half a staff for 30 days since Sunday.

According to New York Times“It is customary for the presidents to mark the death of their predecessors with such proclamations,” but national days of mourning are not only applied to former presidents: President Lyndon Johnson has announced one for the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, and President George Bush has defined one For the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

The Federal Government will be closed on National Mourning Day, as is the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. All government flags will be lowered to half a staff for 30 days afterwards. “The current set of rituals was completely obvious until 1969 with the death of Dwight Eisenhower,” according to the US Presidency project. “At that moment, President Nixon declared a day of mourning, closed all government services on the day of the funeral, directed the flags to be flying half a staff for 30 days and directed that the appropriate honors were handed over by units of the armed forces. “

National Mourning Day will coincide with Jimmy Carter’s state funeral. “To honor a great American, I will officially order a state funeral to be held in Washington for James Earl Carter Jr., 39^th President of the United States, 76^th Governor of Georgia, the Lieutenant of the US Navy, a graduate of the US Naval Academy and a beloved son of Plains, Georgia, who gave his full life in the service of God and the country, “writes President Biden in a statement shared by the White House.

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