[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 68 (Friday, April 8, 1994)]
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                        Presidential Documents 


Federal Register
Vol. 59, No. 68
Friday, April 8, 1994

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Title 3--
The President
                Proclamation 6663 of April 6, 1994

 

National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day, 
                1994

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                The Armed Forces of the United States of America have 
                faced hostile actions in every decade of this century. 
                Over 200,000 American service members are currently 
                serving overseas, many in situations where armed 
                conflict is an ever-present possibility. Recent events 
                in Somalia and continuing peacekeeping operations in 
                Bosnia and elsewhere keep us fully mindful of the high 
                risks that even humanitarian missions entail.

                Over the more than two hundred years of our 
                Independence, thousands of Americans have fallen into 
                the hands of our enemies. Many did not survive the 
                ordeal. Many who did return from captivity had suffered 
                unrelenting indignities, physical and psychological 
                abuse, and unspeakable torture.

                Despite deprivation and suffering inflicted by their 
                captors, these brave Americans persevered, maintained 
                their honor, and kept faith with each other and with 
                the American people. In the Congress, in State and 
                local government, and in civic organizations across the 
                Nation, former prisoners of war still keep faith with 
                America through their continued service in positions of 
                leadership and trust.

                These men and women rank with our greatest patriots; no 
                group of citizens is more deserving of remembrance and 
                special recognition than our former prisoners of war.

                The Congress, by Public Law 103-60, has designated 
                April 9, 1994, as ``National Former Prisoner of War 
                Recognition Day'' and has authorized and requested the 
                President to issue a proclamation in observance of the 
                occasion.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the 
                United States of America, do hereby proclaim April 9, 
                1994, as National Former Prisoner of War Recognition 
                Day. I urge all American citizens to join in honoring 
                members of the Armed Forces of the United States who 
                have been held as prisoners of war. I also call upon 
                Federal, State, and local government officials and 
                private organizations to observe this day with 
                appropriate ceremonies and activities.

                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                sixth day of April, 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 
                eighteenth.

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[FR Doc. 94-8675
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