98-13205. Peace Officers Memorial Day and Police Week, 1998

  • [Federal Register Volume 63, Number 94 (Friday, May 15, 1998)]
    [Presidential Documents]
    [Pages 27191-27192]
    From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
    [FR Doc No: 98-13205]
    
    
    
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    Part V
    
    
    
    
    
    The President
    
    
    
    
    
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    Proclamation 7095--Peace Officers Memorial Day and Police Week, 1998
    
    
                            Presidential Documents 
    
    
    
    Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 94 / Friday, May 15, 1998 / 
    Presidential Documents
    
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    Title 3--
    The President
    
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                    Proclamation 7095 of May 12, 1998
    
                    
    Peace Officers Memorial Day and Police Week, 1998
    
                    By the President of the United States of America
    
                    A Proclamation
    
                    This week a grateful Nation pauses to honor the more 
                    than half a million dedicated law enforcement officers 
                    across our country who put their lives on the line each 
                    day to protect us. These courageous and dedicated men 
                    and women daily wage the timeless battle for right over 
                    wrong, peace over conflict, and the rule of law over 
                    anarchy.
    
                    We ask a great deal of our Federal, State, and local 
                    police officers. We ask them to stand between us and 
                    the forces of violence and chaos. We ask them to 
                    protect our homes and property and to save our lives at 
                    the risk of their own. We ask them to patrol our 
                    highways and our borders, to keep our children safe 
                    from drug dealers and gang leaders, and to bring to 
                    justice the murderers, terrorists, rapists, and other 
                    criminals who prey on our society. We lean heavily on 
                    this thin blue line, and it never breaks.
    
                    Last year, in carrying out their awesome 
                    responsibilities, 158 law enforcement officers lost 
                    their lives--and the lives of their families and 
                    friends were changed forever. After several years of 
                    decreased violence against our law enforcement 
                    community, we face the sobering reality that police 
                    officer fatalities rose 27 percent during 1997.
    
                    As we honor these heroes--those who still live and work 
                    among us, and those who have made the ultimate 
                    sacrifice for our well-being--let us reaffirm our 
                    efforts to end the violence that has taken such a heavy 
                    toll on our Nation's law enforcement community. Let us 
                    work to ensure that America's police officers have the 
                    training, resources, manpower, and community support 
                    they need to carry out the crucial responsibilities 
                    with which we charge them. In this way we can best 
                    honor the service and sacrifice of the thousands of 
                    fallen police officers whose memory we honor and whose 
                    devotion to duty has earned our respect and lasting 
                    gratitude.
    
                    By a joint resolution approved October 1, 1962 (76 
                    Stat. 676), the Congress has authorized and requested 
                    the President to designate May 15 of each year as 
                    ``Peace Officers Memorial Day'' and the week in which 
                    it falls as ``Police Week,'' and, by Public Law 103-322 
                    (36 U.S.C. 175), has directed that the flag be flown at 
                    half-staff on Peace Officers Memorial Day.
    
                    NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the 
                    United States of America, do hereby proclaim May 15, 
                    1998, as Peace Officers Memorial Day and May 10 through 
                    May 16, 1998, as Police Week. I call upon the people of 
                    the United States to observe these occasions with 
                    appropriate ceremonies, programs, and activities. I 
                    also request the Governors of the United States and of 
                    the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, as well as the 
                    appropriate officials of all units of government, to 
                    direct that the flag of the United States be flown at 
                    half-staff on Peace Officers Memorial Day on all 
                    buildings, grounds, and naval vessels throughout the 
                    United States and all areas under its jurisdiction and 
                    control. I also invite all Americans to display the 
                    flag at half-staff from their homes on that day.
    
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                    IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                    twelfth day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen 
                    hundred and ninety-eight, and of the Independence of 
                    the United States of America the two hundred and 
                    twenty-second.
    
                        (Presidential Sig.)
    
    [FR Doc. 98-13205
    Filed 5-14-98; 8:45 am]
    Billing code 3195-01-P
    
    
    

Document Information

Published:
05/15/1998
Department:
Executive Office of the President
Entry Type:
Presidential Document
Document Type:
Proclamation
Document Number:
98-13205
Pages:
27191-27192 (2 pages)
EOCitation:
of 1998-05-12
PDF File:
98-13205.pdf