[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 182 (Monday, September 21, 1998)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 50459-50460]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-25399]



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Part VII





The President





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Proclamation 7124--National POW/MIA Recognition Day, 1998
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                Proclamation 7124 of September 17, 1998

                
National POW/MIA Recognition Day, 1998

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                For more than two centuries, America has been blessed 
                by the service and sacrifice of the men and women of 
                our Armed Forces. Often leaving home and family, they 
                have fought to preserve our freedom, protect our 
                national interests, and advance American values and 
                ideals around the globe. These valiant heroes have 
                risked--and many have lost--their lives in service to 
                our Nation and for the well-being of their fellow 
                Americans.

                Each year, on National POW/MIA Recognition Day, we 
                acknowledge with special gratitude and profound respect 
                those who paid for our freedom with their own, and we 
                remember with deep sorrow those whose fate has never 
                been resolved. Americans who were held as prisoners of 
                war throughout our history endured the indignities and 
                brutality of captivity without surrendering their 
                devotion to duty, honor, and country. With steadfast 
                hearts and indomitable spirit, these patriots never 
                gave up on America because they knew that America, and 
                the American people, would never give up on them.

                In the same way, we will never give up on our efforts 
                to obtain the fullest possible accounting of every 
                American missing in service to our country. We reaffirm 
                our pledge to their families to search unceasingly for 
                information about those missing and to seek the 
                repatriation of those who have died and whose remains 
                have not been recovered. By doing so we keep faith with 
                our men and women in the Armed Forces and with the 
                families who have suffered the anguish of not knowing 
                the fate of their loved ones.

                On September 18, 1998, the flag of the National League 
                of Families of American Prisoners of War and Missing in 
                Southeast Asia, a black and white banner symbolizing 
                America's missing and our fierce determination to 
                account for them, will be flown over the White House, 
                the U.S. Capitol, the Departments of State, Defense, 
                and Veterans Affairs, the Selective Service System 
                Headquarters, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Korean 
                War Veterans Memorial, national cemeteries, and other 
                locations across our country.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, by virtue of the 
                authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of 
                the United States, do hereby proclaim September 18, 
                1998, as National POW/MIA Recognition Day. I ask all 
                Americans to join me in honoring former American 
                prisoners of war and those whose fate is still 
                undetermined. I also encourage the American people to 
                remember with compassion and concern the courageous 
                families who persevere in their quest to know the fate 
                of their missing loved ones.

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                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord 
                nineteen hundred and ninety-eight, and of the 
                Independence of the United States of America the two 
                hundred and twenty-third.

                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. 98-25399
Filed 9-18-98; 10:58 am]
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