[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 148 (Wednesday, August 3, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-19093]
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[Federal Register: August 3, 1994]
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Part IV
The President
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Proclamation 6709--
50th Anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising
Presidential Documents
Federal Register
Vol. 59, No. 148
Wednesday, August 3, 1994
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Title 3--
The President
Proclamation 6709 of August 1, 1994
50th Anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
On this day of remembrance, we pause together to recall
the brutal path that has led to the triumph of freedom
in Poland. We remember the brave men and women of the
Polish Home Army who stood on the front lines of combat
as their city was destroyed. We recall the children of
Warsaw who braved sniper fire to deliver messages for
the Resistance. We hold in our hearts the spirits of
those who lost their lives. We grieve with their
survivors. We speak to one another of those bloody days
so that we may never know that sorrow again.
A half-century ago, the residents of Warsaw, Poland,
could scarcely imagine that their city would restore
its playgrounds for children or its gardens for
flowers. For 63 monstrous days of Nazi aggression, it
seemed impossible that a Polish arsenal stockpiled with
courage, faith, and solidarity could prevail against
the tanks, machine guns, and bombers of Hitler's
tyranny. But since that time, when it seemed
unfathomable to the valiant citizens of Warsaw that
they would ever recapture freedom's light, the people
of Poland have emerged victorious. Fifty years later,
the weapons of Nazi terror are lost to history.
Solidarity inspires us still.
Warsaw has earned the flowers that grace it today.
Though battered by the chaos of the second World War
and stifled by the strictures of the Cold War, the
people of Poland have continued to rebuild their
beloved capital. Brick by brick, building by building,
the beauty and majesty that defined Warsaw for
centuries are being reborn to a generation of Poles who
have just recently discovered the blessings of freedom.
The courage and hope that carried their parents and
grandparents through the darkest days of the 1944
uprising remain. The legacy of that battle stirs
today's residents to embrace the challenges of liberty.
And on the strength of that tradition, democracy now
thrives in Warsaw.
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 proclaim August 1, 1994, as the 50th
Anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising. I call upon the
people of the United States to observe this day with
appropriate ceremonies and activities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
first day of August, in the year of our Lord nineteen
hundred and ninety-four, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and
nineteenth.
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[FR Doc. 94-19093
Filed 8-2-94; 8:56 am]
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