Re: May day

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:

>Have a great May Day everyone.

Don't forget that in the USA, May 1 is officially Loyalty Day. This year's
White House proclamation isn't out yet, but here's last year's.

Doug


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White House Press Release
LOYALTY DAY, 1997
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                           THE WHITE HOUSE
                    Office of the Press Secretary

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  For Immediate Release                                May 1, 1997


                         LOYALTY DAY, 1997

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          BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

                           A PROCLAMATION


       Each year, Americans dedicate the first day of May to
  formally acknowledge our love for this great land and our
  loyalty to the principles of freedom and equality on which our
  Nation was founded.  This love and loyalty cannot be mandated
  or legislated; rather, these traits spring freely from our
  hearts and minds.

       Looking back across the centuries, we recognize that
  each generation of Americans has been called upon to express
  its love and loyalty in a unique way.  Our founders, defying
  the forces of tyranny, solemnly pledged their lives and futures
  to defend the new Nation they had created, a Nation born of
  reverence for human rights and the principle of
  self-determination.  Less than a century later, another
  generation of Americans spilled its blood to preserve the unity
  of our Nation and to ensure that America lived up to its ideals
  of freedom, justice, and equality.

       The challenges of our own century have called for an
  extraordinary measure of devotion from millions of our citizens.
  Through two devastating world wars and the decades of the Cold
  War, Americans laid down their lives for love of country and to
  defend democracy, advance human rights, and oppose the specter
  of oppression.

       Today we are blessed to be living in a time of
  unprecedented peace and possibility, when the ideals of
  democracy and human dignity so eloquently articulated by
  our founders have been widely embraced by nations in our
  own hemisphere and around the world.  But we have fresh
  opportunities to prove our love and loyalty to America.
  The challenge for our generation is to realize the promise
  of our Nation:  to be a strong and steady influence for peace
  and freedom across the globe; to be a powerful voice for human
  rights wherever they are silenced; to live up to America's
  promise of justice, equality, and opportunity by ensuring
  that all of our people have the tools and encouragement they
  need to meet their God-given potential.

       The Congress, by Public Law 85-529, has designated May 1
  of each year as "Loyalty Day."  Let us, on this day, remember
  the contributions of the many courageous Americans who have
  gone before us, and let us keep faith with them by reaffirming
  our love for and loyalty to this Nation they sustained with
  their service and sacrifice.

       NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the
  United States of America, do hereby proclaim May 1, 1997, as
  Loyalty Day.  I urge all Americans to recall, on this day,
  the valor and selflessness of all those who made this Nation
  so worthy of our love and loyalty.  I call upon Government
  officials to display the flag of the United States and to
  participate in patriotic activities in support of this national
  observance.

       IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
  first day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and
  ninety-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of
  America the two hundred and twenty-first.




       	    	      	   	     WILLIAM J. CLINTON




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