[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 212 (Thursday, November 3, 2022)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 66533-66534]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-24171]


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                Proclamation 10491 of October 31, 2022

                
National Veterans and Military Families Month, 
                2022

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                This month, our Nation honors the strength and 
                sacrifices of the families, caregivers, and survivors 
                of our veterans and our current service members. They 
                may not wear uniforms, but their service is essential 
                to our national security and the character of our 
                Nation. We owe them a debt of gratitude that we can 
                never fully repay.

                Constant tours, deployments, and rotations are 
                difficult for our military families. Jill and I have 
                personally experienced the anxious pride that parents 
                feel seeing their child in uniform. We have marveled at 
                the devotion of military families and their resilience 
                to uproot their lives every few years and move to new 
                communities. We honor the stalwart courage and resolve 
                of veteran families caring for their loved ones when 
                their service in uniform concludes. We grieve alongside 
                families of the fallen who have lost a piece of their 
                soul. That is why I take so seriously the sacred 
                obligation to prepare and equip our service members 
                when we send them into harm's way and to care for them 
                and their families when they return home.

                Since coming to office, I have signed into law 
                important expansions of services and benefits to 
                support our veterans and their families, improved VA 
                health care and benefits for veterans exposed to burn 
                pits and other toxic substances through the PACT Act, 
                and made historic reforms to the military justice 
                system that will enhance safety and protections for 
                service members and their families impacted by sexual 
                assault and domestic violence. The First Lady's Joining 
                Forces initiative is helping military spouses find 
                jobs, connecting military children with better 
                education, and helping to ensure that military and 
                veteran families, caregivers, and survivors have what 
                they need to thrive. My Administration has also 
                released a comprehensive public health strategy to 
                reduce military and veteran suicides, which will guide 
                our efforts to stand with families and protect the 
                lives of our Nation's heroes.

                To be a veteran or a service member is to have endured 
                and survived challenges most Americans will never know. 
                To be the family of one of those proud patriots is to 
                sacrifice more for our country than most Americans will 
                ever give. During National Veterans and Military 
                Families Month, we pay homage to the unrelenting 
                bravery and dedication of all who wear the uniform and 
                to the unwavering love and support of all who serve 
                alongside them. Families who put their lives on hold so 
                our military can hold the line represent the best of 
                America, and we will always remember what they do for 
                our Nation.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., 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 November 2022 
                as National Veterans and Military Families Month. I 
                call upon the people of the United States to honor 
                veterans and military families with appropriate 
                ceremonies and activities.

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

[FR Doc. 2022-24171
Filed 11-2-22; 11:15 am]
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