[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 122 (Wednesday, June 25, 2014)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 36179-36180]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-15039]



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Vol. 79

Wednesday,

No. 122

June 25, 2014

Part IV





The President





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Proclamation 9144--70th Anniversary of the GI Bill of Rights



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                Proclamation 9144 of June 20, 2014

                
70th Anniversary of the GI Bill of Rights

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                In the Second World War, a generation risked their 
                lives for people they had never met and ideals none of 
                us could live without. As they fought to liberate a 
                continent and safeguard the American way of life, our 
                Nation resolved to serve them as well as they were 
                serving us. After months of heated debate and hard-
                fought compromise, President Franklin D. Roosevelt 
                signed the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, 
                better known as the GI Bill of Rights.

                When patriots who had left our shores as barely more 
                than boys returned as heroes, the GI Bill allowed them 
                to launch their civilian lives. It provided 
                unemployment benefits, home loan guaranties, and 
                subsidies for a college education. This bill marked the 
                first time higher education was available to large 
                cross-sections of the American people. Because veterans 
                took advantage of this unprecedented opportunity, our 
                Nation developed the most talented workforce in 
                history. Millions excelled in their careers, started 
                families, bought new homes, or even started new 
                businesses, helping to build the greatest middle class 
                the world has ever known.

                The GI Bill proved that America prospers when we put a 
                good education within the reach of those willing to 
                work for it. Under the Post-9/11 GI Bill, our Nation 
                has extended this chance to a new generation. This law 
                has helped more than a million veterans, service 
                members, and military families pursue a college 
                education. And across our country, employers can tap 
                into a vast pool of talent--men and women who are not 
                only highly educated but have also served with honor in 
                the most dangerous corners of the earth.

                Today, let us celebrate 70 years of opportunity. Let us 
                remember our sacred debt to our veterans and recall 
                that when we give them the chance to excel, there is no 
                limit to what they might accomplish.

                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 June 22, 2014, as the 
                70th Anniversary of the GI Bill of Rights. I call upon 
                all Americans to observe this day with appropriate 
                programs, ceremonies, and activities.

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

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