Presidential Document2022-19876
National Days of Prayer and Remembrance, 2022
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Published
September 13, 2022
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September 8, 2022
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 176 (Tuesday, September 13, 2022)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 55903-55904]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-19876]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 87 , No. 176 / Tuesday, September 13, 2022 /
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Proclamation 10441 of September 8, 2022
National Days of Prayer and Remembrance, 2022
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
On September 11, 2001, an act of deliberate evil ripped
2,977 innocent lives from this world in a horrifying
attack on our Nation. For 21 years, children have grown
up without parents. Parents have grieved lost children.
Husbands and wives have had to push forward without
their partners by their sides. Families across our
country have been left to mark birthdays and milestones
with a black hole in their hearts and an empty chair at
their tables.
In the week after the attacks, as we first observed a
National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, Americans
banded together, consoled one another, and prayed for
strength. We saw a true sense of national unity--in our
shared resolve, in survivors' resilience, and in a new
generation's readiness to defend and serve our Nation.
In the years since, in New York, Shanksville, at the
Pentagon, and all across our country, we have
consecrated that day of observance, reflecting on the
loved ones we lost, the heroes who rushed into harm's
way, and the courage of so many families who lost a
piece of their soul but somehow still found a way to
get up and keep going. Their strength is an
inspiration.
As the quote from Virgil inscribed on the 9/11 Memorial
at Ground Zero reminds us: ``No day shall erase you
from the memory of time.'' Each year, we have renewed
our sacred vow: Never forget. Just weeks ago, we once
again demonstrated our resolve and capacity to defend
our Nation against threats by delivering justice to the
emir of al-Qaeda--a man deeply involved in the
terrorist group's activities, including 9/11 and
countless other deadly attacks against Americans.
Thanks to the extraordinary persistence and patriotism
of our intelligence and counterterrorism communities,
the courageous families who lost so much on that
searing September day in 2001 will hopefully find some
measure of closure.
On these National Days of Prayer and Remembrance, we
come together to not only honor the memories of those
lost but to build a future worthy of their dreams and
to find light in darkness and strength in broken
places. The great and defining truth about America is
this: We do not break. We never give in. We never back
down.
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 September 9,
2022, through September 11, 2022, as National Days of
Prayer and Remembrance. I ask that the people of the
United States honor the victims of September 11, 2001
and their loved ones with prayer, contemplation,
memorial services and visits, bells, candlelight
vigils, and other activities. I invite people around
the world to join. I call on the citizens of our Nation
to give thanks for our many freedoms and blessings, and
I invite all people of faith to join me in asking for
God's continued guidance, mercy, and protection.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
eighth day of September, 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.
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