[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 114 (Wednesday, June 16, 2021)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 31903-31904]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-12842]




                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 114 / Wednesday, June 16, 2021 / 
Presidential Documents

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Title 3--
The President

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                Proclamation 10227 of June 11, 2021

                
Flag Day and National Flag Week, 2021

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                In the midst of a revolution, less than a year after 
                declaring our independence, the Congress consecrated 
                what would become an enduring emblem of American unity 
                by adopting a national flag on June 14, 1777.

                In the 244 years since, the United States has grown and 
                changed across the generations--and our flag has 
                changed in turn. The blue field of stars has been 
                enlarged as our Union has gained in size and strength. 
                The 13 stripes, symbolizing the 13 original States, 
                have held as constant as the bedrock values upon which 
                our Nation was first conceived--the very same values we 
                still cherish, and still reach for, today.

                Since adoption of the Stars and Stripes, Americans--and 
                people around the world--have continuously looked to 
                our flag as a symbol of unity and liberty. Our flag has 
                sailed around the globe, and journeyed to the Moon and, 
                now, to Mars. It has flown on fields of battle, and 
                marks the resting places of those who have given what 
                President Lincoln called ``the last full measure of 
                devotion'' for our country. Its prominence at civic 
                landmarks and seats of public authority communicates 
                the promise of democracy--that under this flag, the 
                rule of law is supreme and the people reign. As we 
                continue the sacred work of building a more perfect 
                Union together, let our flag serve as a reminder to us, 
                and to the world, that America stands for and strives 
                for the promise of freedom, justice, and equality for 
                all.

                To commemorate the adoption of our flag, the Congress, 
                by joint resolution approved August 3, 1949, as amended 
                (63 Stat. 492), designated June 14 of each year as 
                ``Flag Day'' and requested that the President issue an 
                annual proclamation calling for its observance and for 
                the display of the flag of the United States on all 
                Federal Government buildings. The Congress also 
                requested, by joint resolution approved June 9, 1966, 
                as amended (80 Stat. 194), that the President issue 
                annually a proclamation designating the week in which 
                June 14 occurs as ``National Flag Week'' and calling 
                upon all citizens of the United States to display the 
                flag during that week.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of 
                the United States of America, do hereby proclaim June 
                14, 2021, as Flag Day, and the week starting June 13, 
                2021, as National Flag Week. I direct the appropriate 
                officials to display the flag on all Federal Government 
                buildings during this week, and I urge all Americans to 
                observe Flag Day and National Flag Week by displaying 
                the flag. I encourage the people of the United States 
                to observe with pride and all due ceremony those days 
                from Flag Day through Independence Day, set aside by 
                the Congress (89 Stat. 211), as a time to honor the 
                American spirit, to celebrate our history and the 
                foundational values we strive to uphold, and to 
                publicly recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of 
                the United States of America.

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                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                eleventh day of June, in the year of our Lord two 
                thousand twenty-one, and of the Independence of the 
                United States of America the two hundred and forty-
                fifth.
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[FR Doc. 2021-12842
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