Presidential Document2023-21797
Gold Star Mother's and Family's Day, 2023
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September 29, 2023
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September 25, 2023
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 188 (Friday, September 29, 2023)]
[Presidential Documents]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-21797]
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Vol. 88
Friday,
No. 188
September 29, 2023
Part VI
The President
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Proclamation 10632--Gold Star Mother's and Family's Day, 2023
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Federal Register / Vol. 88 , No. 188 / Friday, September 29, 2023 /
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Title 3--
The President
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Proclamation 10632 of September 25, 2023
Gold Star Mother's and Family's Day, 2023
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
On this day of solemn remembrance, my heart is with all
our Nation's Gold Star mothers and fathers, wives and
husbands, and daughters and sons--all the families who
are grieving a loved one, a patriot, who died fighting
to defend our country and preserve our freedom. Today,
we keep the faith with all those who kept faith with us
by recommitting to our sacred obligation as a Nation to
always care for the families of those who gave their
last full measure of devotion to our Nation.
From the fields of Yorktown and the shores of Normandy
to the rice paddies of Busan and Saigon, the valleys of
Kandahar, and the mountains of Sinjar, generations of
brave men and women have laid down their lives--not for
a person or place but for an idea unlike any other in
human history: the idea of the United States of
America. And together, they helped deliver a Nation
grounded in freedom, democracy, equality, tolerance,
opportunity, and justice. All of us live by the light
of the flame of liberty that our fallen heroes kept
burning. Their legacies--guarded and strengthened by
each generation--will always live on in our Nation.
I know that days of remembrance can bring grieving
families right back to the first terrible moments when
the hurt was so raw. The pain of remembering those we
have lost and the pride in who they were and how they
lived can be inseparable. As we honor the courage and
sacrifice of all those who died in uniform, the First
Lady and I are keeping all our Gold Star families in
our prayers. And my Administration has made it a top
priority to fulfill our Nation's promise to care for
military and veteran families, caregivers, and
survivors--the loved ones who provide strength through
countless deployments and serve our Nation in so many
ways, all while enduring their loved one's absence.
Over the past two and a half years, I have signed into
law more than 25 bipartisan laws to support our service
members and veterans as well as their families,
caregivers, and survivors, and we will always stand
with our Gold Star families to ensure they have support
and resources to help them heal.
On Gold Star Mother's and Family's Day, we grieve for
those who paid the ultimate price to keep our Nation
safe and secure and for the families who will always
feel their absence. May we continue to honor their
sacrifice by working toward that more perfect union,
for which so many patriots lived and died, and may we
always keep faith with our Gold Star families who carry
their light forward each day.
The Congress, by Senate Joint Resolution 115 of June
23, 1936 (49 Stat. 1895 as amended), has designated the
last Sunday in September as ``Gold Star Mother's Day.''
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 Sunday,
September 24, 2023, as Gold Star Mother's and Family's
Day. I call upon all Government officials to display
the flag of the United States over Government buildings
on this special day. I also encourage the American
people to display the
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flag and hold appropriate ceremonies as a public
expression of our Nation's gratitude and respect for
our Gold Star Mothers and Families.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twenty-fifth day of September, 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-
eighth.
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