103 STAT. 3046 PROCLAMATION 5985—MAY 22, 1989 committed themselves to increasing public awareness and understand- ing of gastrointestinal diseases. In recognition of their important efforts to combat digestive diseases, the Congress, by House Joint Resolution 170, has designated the month of May 1989 as "National Digestive Disease Awareness Month" and has authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this event. NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE BUSH, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the month of May 1989 as National Di- gestive Disease Awareness Month. I urge all government agencies and the people of the United States, as well as educational, philanthropic, scientific, medical, and health care organizations and professionals, to participate in appropriate ceremonies to encourage further research into the causes and cures of all types of digestive diseases. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty- second day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirteenth. GEORGE BUSH Proclamation 5985 of May 22, 1989 Prayer for Peace, Memorial Day, 1989 By the President of the United States of America; v; A Proclamation On Memorial Day, we pause to remember and to pray for those Ameri- cans who died while defending the peace and freedom we enjoy every day of the year. On this day, we recall with solemn pride the places where these departed heroes made their final stand for the cause of himian rights and individual liberty—the Argonne, Omaha Beach, Pork Chop Hill, and a hundred rice paddies and jungles in Vietnam. We also recall the heroes who have perished in more recent times, such as the soldiers who liberated Grenada and the Marines who fell to terrorist attacks in Beirut and other cities aroimd the world. With the tragic loss still fresh in our minds, we remember the men of tiuret number two aboard the USS IOWA, the six sailors on the USS WHITE PLAINS, and the two crewmen on the USS AMERICA who were re- cently killed in the line of duty. Like the brave and selfless Americans who have gone before them, these young men were willing to put them- selves in harm's way to protect our national seciirity. Across the country, Americans are participating in special ceremonies or pausing privately to pray for those who died while serving this great Nation. Some of us had close personal ties to the men and women we honor today; all of us are boimd to them by a lasting debt of gratitude. Today, we continue the Memorial Day tradition of expressing our ap- preciation for the veterans who died for a cause they considered more important than life itself. They did not serve in order to die; they served so that others might dwell in freedom. These veterans defended
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