[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 98 (Monday, May 22, 1995)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 27219-27220]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-12668]
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Part V
The President
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Proclamation 6802--Prayer for Peace, Memorial Day, 1995
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 98 / Monday, May 22, 1995 /
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Title 3--
The President
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Proclamation 6802 of May 18, 1995
Prayer for Peace, Memorial Day, 1995
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
The essence of America is the quality and breadth of
the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. Yet far
too often in our country's history, the price of
preserving these freedoms has been the lives of our
Nation's young men and women and the heartbreak of
their families and friends. The light and laughter of
our lost sons and daughters can never be replaced. But
the gift of their courage will always endure. America
remembers the sacrifices of those who gave their lives
to protect our liberty. For our citizens and for
freedom-loving people around the world, they have kept
democracy's flame burning brightly.
Forged in revolution and tempered by more than two
centuries of fighting injustice, America has grown
stronger, determined to safeguard the blessings that
have been so hard-won. As we recall the selfless
devotion of those who have risen to defend the cause of
freedom, we resolve today that their efforts shall not
have been in vain. America still holds fast to the
principles upon which it was founded, and its people
still stand bound together by our common faith in
peace. In remembrance of our fallen heroes, we pray
that peace will forever grace our land, that it will
guide relations between citizens and friendships among
nations, and that our people will one day see a time
when harmony fills the Earth.
May God comfort all who mourn.
In respect and recognition of the courageous men and
women to whom we pay tribute, the Congress, by joint
resolution approved on May 11, 1950 (64 Stat. 158), has
requested the President to issue a proclamation calling
upon the people of the United States to observe each
Memorial Day as a day of prayer for permanent peace and
designating a period on that day when the people of the
United States might unite in prayer.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the
United States of America, do hereby proclaim Memorial
Day, May 29, 1995, as a day of prayer for permanent
peace. I designate the hour beginning in each locality
at 11 o'clock in the morning of that day as a time to
join in prayer. I urge the press, radio, television,
and all information media to take part in this
observance.
I also request the Governors of the United States and
the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the appropriate
officials of all units of government, to direct that
the flag be flown at half-staff until noon during this
Memorial Day on all buildings, grounds, and naval
vessels throughout the United States and in all areas
under its jurisdiction and control, and I request the
people of the United States to display the flag at
half-staff from their homes for the customary forenoon
period.
[[Page 27220]] IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set
my hand this eighteenth day of May, 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.
(Presidential Sig.)
[FR Doc. 95-12668
Filed 5-19-95; 10:48 am]
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