“Avoid popularity if you would have peace.” -Abraham Lincoln

On Memorial Day, Americans honor the more than 1 million men and women who have lost their lives defending America since the Revolutionary War.

A Proclamation

By the President of the United States of America

“Once each May, amid the quiet hills and rolling lanes and breeze-brushed trees of Arlington National Cemetery, far above the majestic Potomac and the monuments and memorials of our Nation’s Capital just beyond, the graves of America’s military dead are decorated with the beautiful flag that in life these brave souls followed and loved….Now, Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Memorial Day, Monday, May 30, 1988, as a day of prayer for permanent peace, and I designate the hour beginning in each locality at eleven 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…

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twelfth.”

Ronald Reagan

May 20, 1988

Today, united as Believers, pray together for peace at eleven o’clock in the year of our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-Four.  
“If possible, as far as it depends on you, live in peace with all.” Romans 12:18