Presidential Document2023-12818
Flag Day and National Flag Week, 2023
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June 14, 2023
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June 9, 2023
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 114 (Wednesday, June 14, 2023)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 38737-38738]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-12818]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 88 , No. 114 / Wednesday, June 14, 2023 /
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Title 3--
The President
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Proclamation 10595 of June 9, 2023
Flag Day and National Flag Week, 2023
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
On Flag Day and during National Flag Week, we celebrate
the enduring strength and promise that the stars and
stripes on our flag have always embodied as they fly
proudly across our country and around the world.
Our flag tells America's story--the story of an ever-
evolving Nation. Thirteen colonies joining together and
winning independence, forming a great Union of States
that has grown bigger and more just across
generations--a place where everyone is entitled to
certain unalienable rights, among them life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness. It is an emblem of our
strength at home and abroad, synonymous with America as
a force for good in the world. It has flown on
battlefields since the Revolution and reminded allies
and adversaries throughout the last century that the
darkness of autocracy is no match for the flame of
liberty. It flies over grand celebratory monuments, and
it accompanies headstones at sacred places like
Arlington National Cemetery, where Jill and I recently
paid tribute to the hundreds of thousands of brave
Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice for our
freedom and future, giving their lives so our Nation
might live. We honor their unbending sense of duty and
courage and remember their faith that we would be
worthy of their sacrifice.
Old Glory stands for hope, pride, and progress. It is
stamped on our exports, hung from booming factories,
and painted on spacecraft that travel high above our
skies--a symbol of the American spirit that keeps
innovating, building, and breaking boundaries. It waves
for justice and equality. It adorns courtrooms and
classrooms. And it presides over free and fair
elections at polling places across the Nation,
reinforcing the promise of our democracy.
Our flag embodies the very soul of America--a soul that
has endured because of sacrifices made by generations
of Americans, whose mission we must keep alive to
ensure democracy endures. The Stars and Stripes belongs
to all Americans and reminds us that much more unites
us than divides us. It flies proudly in small town
squares, on downtown skyscrapers, in high school gyms,
in our biggest sports stadiums, and on our military
bases. Wherever our flag is, it stands for freedom,
justice, and opportunity; it is a beacon of democracy
and the fundamental American promise that everyone is
created equal and united in pursuit of a more perfect
Union.
To commemorate the adoption of our flag in 1777, the
Congress, by joint resolution approved on August 3,
1949, as amended (63 Stat. 492), designated June 14 of
each year as ``Flag Day'' and requested the President
issue an annual proclamation calling for its observance
and for the display of the flag of the United States on
all Federal Government buildings. The Congress also
requested, by joint resolution approved June 9, 1966,
as amended (80 Stat. 194), that the President issue
annually a proclamation designating the week in which
June 14 occurs as ``National Flag Week'' and calling
upon all citizens of the United States to display the
flag during that week.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of
the United States of America, do hereby proclaim June
14, 2023, as Flag Day, and the week starting June 11,
2023, as National Flag Week. I direct the appropriate
officials to display the flag on all Federal Government
buildings during
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this week, and I urge all Americans to observe Flag Day
and National Flag Week by displaying the flag and
honoring all of our brave service members and revering
those who gave their last full measure of devotion
defending our freedoms. I encourage the people of the
United States to observe with pride and all due
ceremony those days from Flag Day through Independence
Day, set aside by the Congress (89 Stat. 211), as a
time to honor the American spirit, to celebrate our
history and the foundational values we strive to
uphold, and to publicly recite the Pledge of Allegiance
to the Flag of the United States of America.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
ninth day of June, in the year of our Lord two thousand
twenty-three, and of the Independence of the United
States of America the two hundred and forty-seventh.
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