95-10327. National Day of Mourning in Memory of Those Who Died in Oklahoma City

[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 79 (Tuesday, April 25, 1995)]
[Presidential Documents]
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Part XI





The President





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Proclamation 6789--National Day of Mourning in Memory of Those Who Died 
in Oklahoma City

Proclamation 6790--National Volunteer Week


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Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 79 / Tuesday, April 25, 1995 / 
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Title 3--
The President  
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                Proclamation 6789 of April 21, 1995

                
National Day of Mourning in Memory of Those Who 
                Died in Oklahoma City

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                As we seek justice for the evil done in Oklahoma City 
                on April 19, 1995, good and decent people everywhere 
                mourn the loss of innocents. Our sons and daughters, 
                parents and friends were stolen from us. Their families 
                can never replace the gift of their laughter. Our 
                Nation can never replace the spirit of their character. 
                But even as we grieve, we resolve today in solemn 
                promise that those on earth shall never be bowed by 
                murderous cowards. This sin against humanity shall not 
                go unpunished.

                It has been said that, ``In every child who is born, 
                the potentiality of the whole human race is born 
                again.'' We lost unimaginable potential this past week. 
                And we will miss our loved ones dearly. But the 
                children who died in this violence may yet lift up 
                humanity. We do them no greater honor than by taking 
                from their deaths the memory of their hopes, by 
                carrying with us always their dreams, their kind and 
                trusting ways. We redeem the value of their lives no 
                further than by heeding the voices of children 
                everywhere, who ask simply and invariably for peace and 
                love.

                We take comfort in knowing that all who perished are in 
                God's hands.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the 
                United States of America, by virtue of the authority 
                vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United 
                States, do hereby appoint Sunday, April 23, 1995, as a 
                National Day of Mourning throughout the United States. 
                I ask the American people assembled on that day in 
                their homes and places of worship to pay homage to the 
                memory of those lost in the Oklahoma City tragedy and 
                to pray for them and their community. I invite all 
                those around the world who share our grief to join us 
                in this solemn observance.

                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                twenty-first day of April, in the year of our Lord 
                nineteen hundred and ninety-five, and of the 
                Independence of the United States of America the two 
                hundred and nineteenth.

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[FR Doc. 95-10327
Filed 4-24-95; 10:46 am]
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