[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 30, Number 45 (Monday, November 14, 1994)]
[Pages 2299-2300]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 6754--National Military Families Recognition Day, 1994

November 4, 1994

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    Military families play an integral role in ensuring the 
effectiveness of America's Armed Forces. Without fanfare, they 
selflessly provide behind-the-scenes support to service members, their 
units, and commands worldwide. Their devotion to their loved ones, to 
the military, and to their country is unfaltering.

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    Time and again, military families bravely bid farewell as wives and 
husbands, children and parents depart for missions in far-off, often 
hostile areas. Committed to preserving freedom and democracy for all of 
us, these families provide the continuity and stability essential to the 
well-being of our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and the members of 
our Coast Guard, National Guard, and Reserves.
    Military families face abrupt separations, moves to foreign soil, 
and tours in isolated locations away from friends. As they adjust to 
conditions around the world, they learn to do without many of the 
conveniences that most Americans view as basics. They quickly and 
adeptly transform unfamiliar quarters into welcoming homes, forming 
bonds of friendship with others in the unit, sharing in their hopes, 
dreams, and aspirations.
    Commanders and other Department of Defense leaders have long 
recognized the paramount importance of families in the retention and 
readiness of military members. Indeed, America reaps invaluable benefits 
from the dedication of military families as they support America's 
mission to promote democracy and to secure peace.
    Now, Therefore, I, William J. Clinton, President of the United 
States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the 
Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim November 
21, 1994, as ``National Military Families Recognition Day.'' I call upon 
all Americans to join in honoring military families throughout the world 
and in recognizing their integral role in supporting the men and women 
who defend the cause of freedom at home and abroad. I ask Federal, 
State, and local officials and private organizations to observe this day 
with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this fourth day of 
November, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-four, and 
of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and 
nineteenth.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:18 a.m., November 7, 
1994]

Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on 
November 8. This item was not received in time for publication in the 
appropriate issue.