Presidential Document2023-24503
National Veterans and Military Families Month, 2023
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November 3, 2023
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October 31, 2023
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 212 (Friday, November 3, 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: 2023-24503]
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Proclamation 10668 of October 31, 2023
National Veterans and Military Families Month,
2023
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
The poet John Milton once wrote, ``They also serve who
only stand and wait.'' During National Veterans and
Military Families Month, we recognize that our military
and veteran families answer our Nation's call to duty,
and we recommit to doing right by their service and
sacrifice.
For me, the First Lady, and the entire Biden family: It
is personal. When our son Beau was deployed to Iraq, we
learned what it meant to pray every day for the safe
return of someone you love. Our grandkids learned what
it meant to have their dad overseas in a warzone
instead of at home, tucking them into bed and reading
them a story every night. Millions of Americans have
had that experience. To all the mothers and fathers,
sisters and brothers, sons and daughters, spouses and
partners, and loved ones who stand alongside our
veterans and service members: You are the solid steel
spine that bears up under every burden and the
courageous heart that rises to every challenge.
Our Nation has only one truly sacred obligation--to
prepare those we send into harm's way and care for them
and their families while they are deployed and when
they return home. Since the beginning of my
Administration, fulfilling that obligation has been my
top priority. In June, I signed an Executive Order that
establishes the most comprehensive set of
administrative actions in our Nation's history to
support the economic security of military and veteran
spouses, caregivers, and survivors. It encourages all
Federal agencies to do more to retain military spouses
through flexible policies, improves the ability for
spouses to maintain their employment when moving
overseas, allows spouses to seek advice on overseas
employment issues through military legal assistance
offices for the first time, and improves spouses'
access to quality, dependable, and affordable child
care.
Since the beginning of my Administration, I have signed
more than 30 bipartisan bills to expand the services
and benefits that support our veterans and their
families, caregivers, and survivors--including the
Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring our
Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act, the
most significant expansion of benefits and services for
toxin exposed veterans and survivors in over 30 years.
We released a national strategy to reduce military and
veteran suicide by tackling some of the root causes of
this crisis--like addressing financial insecurity by
expanding job training opportunities for transitioning
service members and veterans and their spouses and
increasing funding to prevent and eliminate
homelessness. Further, I signed an Executive Order that
implemented historic, bipartisan military justice
reforms to transform how the military handles sexual
assault and domestic violence cases in order to make
our military safer and more just. Earlier this year, I
directed the Department of Defense to review pay and
benefits for our military members, because our Armed
Forces and their families deserve a 21st century
compensation system that reflects their service and
sacrifice. Additionally, the First Lady's Joining
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Forces initiative is providing support to military and
veteran families, caregivers, and survivors by
improving economic opportunity for military families,
making school transitions easier for military children,
and expanding resources to promote health and well-
being for this community.
Our fighting force is the greatest in the world--in no
small part because, year after year and decade after
decade, military and veteran families have had their
loved ones' backs. As a country, we owe it to these
families to have their backs. This year--as we
celebrate 50 years of an all-volunteer force--may we
also recognize the bravery and dedication of our
military and veteran families and work to repay the
debt of gratitude we owe each one of them.
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 November 2023
as National Veterans and Military Families Month. I
call upon the people of the United States to honor
veterans and military families with appropriate
ceremonies and activities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
thirty-first day of October, 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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