Sisolak orders flags to half-staff for ‘Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day’

Gov. Steve Sisolak signed a proclamation for Monday to be remembered in Nevada as “Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day,” to honor those who lost who died during the attack.

In a statement issued Sunday, the governor ordered U.S. and Nevada flags to be flown at half-staff at the state Capitol and all state public buildings and grounds from sunrise to sunset on Monday, in recognition of National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, “to honor the lives lost in the attack at Pearl Harbor on Oahu, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941.”

More than 2,400 lives were lost in the attack that brought the U.S. into World War II.

The proclamation also recognizes the state’s namesake battleship, the USS Nevada, which was stationed at Pearl Harbor during the attack and was hit by six bombs and a torpedo. The USS Nevada was later used during the D-Day invasion in 1944 and the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa in 1945.