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Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
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Collection: Correspondence, White House Office of: Records,
1981-1989
Folder Title: Memorial Day, May 25, 1981
Box: 70
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THE THE UNITED
NO
SEAL
STATES
Memorial Day, May 25, 1981
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Over one hundred years ago, Memorial Day was established to commemorate
those who died in the defense of our national ideals. Our ideals of freedom,
justice, and equal rights for all have been challenged many times since then,
and thousands of Americans have given their lives in many parts of the world
to secure those same ideals and insure for their children a lasting peace. Their
sacrifice demands that we, the living, continue to promote the cause of peace
and the ideals for which they so valiantly gave of themselves.
Today, the United States stands as a beacon of liberty and democratic
strength before the community of nations. We are resolved to stand firm
against those who would destroy the freedoms we cherish. We are determined
to achieve an enduring peace-a peace with liberty and with honor. This
determination, this resolve, is the highest tribute we can pay to the many who
have fallen in the service of our Nation.
In recognition of those Americans whom we honor today, the Congress, by
joint resolution of May 11, 1950 (64 Stat. 158), has requested the President to
issue a proclamation calling upon the people of the United States to observe
each Memorial Day as a day of prayer for permanent peace and a period
during such day when the people of the United States might unite in prayer.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of
America, do hereby designate Memorial Day, Monday, May 25, 1981, as a day
of prayer for permanent peace, and I designate the hour beginning in each
locality at 11 o'clock in the morning of that day as a time to unite in prayer.
I urge the press, radio, television, and all other information media to cooperate
in this observance.
I also request the Governors of the United States and the Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico and the appropriate officials of all local units of Government to
direct that the flag be flown at half-staff during this Memorial Day on all
buildings, grounds, and naval vessels throughout the United States and in all
areas under its jurisdiction and control, and I 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 April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-one, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fifth.
Ronald Reagan