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From @lex-luthor.ai.mit.edu:hes@REAGAN.AI.MIT.EDU Tue Jun 1 13:25:44 1993
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1993 11:09-0400
From: The White House <75300.3115@compuserve.com>
To: Clinton-News-Distribution@campaign92.org
Subject: President's Memorial Day Proclamation
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
_______________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release May 31, 1993
TIME FOR THE NATIONAL OBSERVANCE
OF THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF WORLD WAR II, 1993
- - - - - - -
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
Americans live in an era when there are no major
confrontations between world powers. This period of peace
traces its roots back 50 years to the Second World War. Our
Armed Forces stood strong against totalitarian regimes that
sought to dominate and suppress freedom-loving peoples of the
world. Although Americans felt ill-equipped to take on the
vast international responsibilities, we rose to take on world
leadership. In the process, we learned the price of aggression
and the benefits of peace.
At the end of the Cold War, it is therefore fitting
to remember the years of World War II and those brave and
selfless American patriots who stood strong and true against
tyranny so that we could enjoy a safer and more prosperous
life. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's thoughts about the time
still apply today:
We are faced with the pre-eminent fact that, if
civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the
science of human relationship -- the ability of
all people, of all kinds, to live together and
work together in the same world, at peace. . . .
Our generation and future generations must heed these words.
In a world warmed by the sunshine of freedom, but threatened
still by ancient hatreds and new plagues, the United States
of America must stand as a beacon of liberty and justice.
During this period of remembrance and reflection, it is
appropriate that Memorial Day be included during the "Time
for the National Observance of the Fiftieth Anniversary
of World War II." As we preserve the memory of the events
of World War II and honor the memory of our loved ones lost
during that tragic time, I call upon Americans to study the
history of that era so that the values our Nation defended and
the lessons we learned will never be forgotten. I ask that we
celebrate freedom and peace in our houses of worship and in
our halls of government, in private thanksgiving and public
ceremonies, and that we remember and honor our Nation's World
War II veterans.
The Congress, by House Joint Resolution 80, has designated
May 30, 1993, through June 7, 1993, as a "Time for the National
Observance of the Fiftieth Anniversary of World War II."
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NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the
United States of America, do hereby designate May 30, 1993,
through June 7, 1993, as a Time for the National Observance
of the Fiftieth Anniversary of World War II. I call upon all
Americans to observe this period with appropriate programs and
activities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
thirty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen
hundred and ninety-three, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and seventeenth.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON
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