[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]



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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]
Billing code 3195-01-P