[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 104 (Wednesday, May 29, 1996)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 26769-26770]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-13596]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 104 / Wednesday, May 29, 1996 /
Presidential Documents
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Title 3--
The President
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Proclamation 6901 of May 24, 1996
Prayer for Peace, Memorial Day, 1996
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
On the last Monday of May each year, our Nation takes
time to remember those who have given their lives to
safeguard America's freedom. Courageous and loyal
citizens have died on battlefields around the world in
defense of the United States, our interests, and our
values, thus ensuring more than two centuries of
independence and a society based on individual rights.
Their selflessness demands our profound gratitude and
calls us to consider anew the awesome price of liberty.
On this special day, let us reflect upon the supreme
sacrifice made by our fellow citizens lost in battle.
All were proud members of our national community, and
all perished while protecting our country's honor and
the American way of life. Let us share in the grief of
the families whose loved ones remain unaccounted for or
fell while defending this great Nation. And let us
pray, each in our own way, for peace throughout this
land and across the globe. As beneficiaries of the
freedoms our troops secured, we can best pay tribute to
their deeds by leaving to future generations an America
that continues to be a beacon of justice and freedom
for people everywhere.
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 American
people might unite in prayer.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the
United States of America, do hereby proclaim Memorial
Day, May 27, 1996, as a day of prayer for permanent
peace, and I designate the hour beginning in each
locality at 11:00 a.m. of that day as a time to join in
prayer. I urge the press, radio, television, and all
other 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 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.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twenty-fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord
nineteen hundred and ninety-six, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two
hundred and twentieth.
(Presidential Sig.)
[FR Doc. 96-13596
Filed 5-28-96; 8:45 am]
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