[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
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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.
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[FR Doc. 98-13205
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