Presidential Document2024-12101
Prayer for Peace, Memorial Day, 2024
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May 31, 2024
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May 24, 2024
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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 [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-12101]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 106 / Friday, May 31, 2024 /
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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 <a href="http://vlm.cem.va.gov">vlm.cem.va.gov</a> 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.
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[FR Doc. 2024-12101
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