[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 200 (Wednesday, October 16, 2013)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 62307-62308]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-24499]


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                Proclamation 9035 of October 4, 2013

                
German-American Day, 2013

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                Since the first German settlers joined the Jamestown 
                colony in 1608, German Americans have helped shape our 
                identity--the small band of families who left the banks 
                of the Rhine to found Germantown, Pennsylvania; the 
                men, women, and children who fled the tyranny of 
                fascism; the multitudes who sailed across the Atlantic 
                to seek liberty and opportunity on our shores. On 
                German-American Day, we celebrate the vibrant threads 
                of German heritage woven into our national fabric.

                Over the centuries, German Americans have participated 
                in every sector of our society. They have helped steer 
                our Nation's journey--as artists and scientists, as 
                journalists who tested the limits of a free press, as 
                titans of industry, and as workers who turned the gears 
                of industrial revolution. Today, nearly one in four 
                Americans can trace their ancestry to Germany, and all 
                of us are inheritors to the values and traditions 
                handed down through generations of German Americans.

                As close partners in the global community, the United 
                States and Germany work side-by-side to advance our 
                common interests and common ideals: freer societies, 
                cleaner skies, peoples empowered to choose their own 
                destinies, greater prosperity for our two nations and 
                for the world. Today, as we celebrate the contributions 
                of German Americans across a wide breadth of history, 
                let us renew the bonds of friendship between our two 
                peoples.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the 
                United States of America, by virtue of the authority 
                vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the 
                United States, do hereby proclaim October 6, 2013, as 
                German-American Day. I encourage all Americans to learn 
                more about the history of German Americans and reflect 
                on the many contributions they have made to our Nation.

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                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord two 
                thousand thirteen, and of the Independence of the 
                United States of America the two hundred and thirty-
                eighth.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. 2013-24499
Filed 10-15-13; 8:45 am]
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