DeSantis Orders Flags at Half-Staff Monday for John Anderson, Days After Making 'Seminole Wind' Florida's Anthem
The governor's October 30 memo directs United States and Florida flags to half-staff at the State Capitol in Tallahassee and across Apopka from sunrise to sunset on Monday, November 2, honoring the singer who died October 21 at 71.
Florida's flags will fly at half-staff on Monday for a songwriter. Governor Ron DeSantis issued a memo on Friday, October 30, directing the flags of the United States and the State of Florida to be flown at half-staff at the State Capitol in Tallahassee, and at all local and state buildings, installations and grounds throughout the City of Apopka, from sunrise to sunset on Monday, November 2.
The honor is for John Anderson, the Apopka native and Country Music Hall of Fame singer-songwriter who died on October 21 at the age of 71. Anderson's best-known song, the 1992 recording 'Seminole Wind,' gave its name to the second half of the governor's tribute this week.
On October 27, six days after Anderson's death, DeSantis declared by executive order that 'Seminole Wind' is now officially Florida's Anthem. Monday's half-staff observance closes the sequence: the Capitol in Tallahassee, where the governor's memo applies first, and the singer's hometown of Apopka will mark the same hours, sunrise to sunset, under the same order.
