Prayer for Peace, Memorial Day, 2024, 47065-47066 [2024-12101]

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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 106 (Friday, May 31, 2024)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 47065-47066]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-12101]




                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 106 / Friday, May 31, 2024 / 
Presidential Documents

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Title 3--
The President

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                Proclamation 10765 of May 24, 2024

                
Prayer for Peace, Memorial Day, 2024

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                This Memorial Day, we honor the brave women and men who 
                made the ultimate sacrifice for our Nation's freedom. 
                We recommit to keeping our sacred obligation to their 
                survivors, families, and caregivers. Together, we vow 
                to honor their memories by carrying on their work to 
                forge a more perfect Union.

                Since our Nation's founding, members of our Armed 
                Forces have been willing to lay down their lives--not 
                for a person or a place but for an idea unlike any 
                other in human history: the idea of the United States 
                of America. We are the only Nation in the world founded 
                on the idea that we are all created equal and deserve 
                to be treated equally throughout our entire lives. 
                Generations of America's beloved daughters and sons 
                have dared all, risked all, and given all for this 
                idea. Today, as they lie in eternal peace, we continue 
                to live by the light of liberty they kept burning 
                bright.

                To all those grieving the loss of a loved one who wore 
                the uniform, including our Gold Star Families, and to 
                all those who have a loved one still missing or 
                unaccounted for: Our country sees you and mourns with 
                you. I know how painful this day can be--how it can 
                bring you back to the day you lost a piece of your 
                soul. It is overwhelming. No words can ease that grief. 
                But I hope you find a small measure of solace in 
                knowing that we will never forget the price your loved 
                one paid for our freedom--and we will never stop trying 
                to repay the debt of gratitude we owe you and them.

                That is our vow today--and that is our vow always. May 
                God bless our fallen heroes. May God bring comfort to 
                their families. May God protect our troops.

                In honor and recognition of all of our fallen service 
                members, the Congress, by a joint resolution approved 
                May 11, 1950, as amended (36 U.S.C. 116), has requested 
                that the President issue a proclamation calling on the 
                people of the United States to observe each Memorial 
                Day as a day of prayer for permanent peace and 
                designating a period on that day when the people of the 
                United States might unite in prayer and reflection. The 
                Congress, by Public Law 106-579, has also designated 
                3:00 p.m. local time on that day as a time for all 
                Americans to observe, in their own way, the National 
                Moment of Remembrance.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of 
                the United States of America, do hereby proclaim 
                Memorial Day, May 27, 2024, as a day of prayer for 
                permanent peace, and I designate the hour beginning in 
                each locality at 11:00 a.m. of that day as a time when 
                people might unite in prayer and reflection. I urge the 
                press, radio, television, and all other information 
                media to cooperate in this observance. I further ask 
                all Americans to observe the National Moment of 
                Remembrance beginning at 3:00 p.m. local time on 
                Memorial Day.

                I request the Governors of the United States and its 
                Commonwealths and Territories, and the appropriate 
                officials of all units of government, to direct

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                that the flag be flown at half-staff until noon on this 
                Memorial Day on all buildings, grounds, and naval 
                vessels throughout the United States and in all areas 
                under its jurisdiction and control. I encourage 
                families, friends, and neighbors to post tributes to 
                our fallen service members through the Veterans Legacy 
                Memorial at vlm.cem.va.gov so that we may learn more 
                about the lives and contributions of those buried in 
                National, State, and Tribal veteran cemeteries. I also 
                request the people of the United States to display the 
                flag at half-staff from their homes for the customary 
                forenoon period.

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

[FR Doc. 2024-12101
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