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1945 Victory Proclamation
by Harry Truman
President of the United States of America
The Allied armies, through sacrifice and devotion
and with God's help, have wrung from Germany a final and
unconditional surrender. The western world has been
freed of the evil forces which for five years and longer
have imprisoned the bodies and broken the lives of
millions upon millions of free-born men. They have
violated their churches, destroyed their homes,
corrupted their children, and murdered their loved ones.
Our Armies of Liberation have restored freedom to these
suffering peoples, whose spirit and will the oppressors
could never enslave. Much remains to be done. The
victory won in the West must now be won in the East. The
whole world must be cleansed of the evil from which half
the world has been freed. United, the peace-loving
nations have demonstrated in the West that their arms
are stronger by far than the might of dictators or the
tyranny of military cliques that once called us soft and
weak. The power of our peoples to defend themselves
against all enemies will be proved in the Pacific was as
it has been proved in Europe. For the trimuph of spirit
and of arms which we have won, and of its promise to
peoples everywhere who join us in the love of freedom,
it is fitting that we, as a nation, give thanks to
Almighty God, who has strengthened us and given us the
victory.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN,
President of the United States of America, do hereby
appoint Sunday, May 13, 1945 to be a day of prayer. I
call upon the people of the United States, whatever
their faith, to unite in offering joyful thanks to God
for the victory we have won and to pray that He will
support us to the end of our present struggle and guide
us into the way of peace. I also call upon my countrymen
to dedicate this day of prayer to the memory of those
who have given their lives to make possible our victory.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and
caused the seal of the United States of America to be
affixed. Done at the City of Washington this eighth day
of May in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and
forty-five and of the Independence of the United States
of America the one hundred and sixty-ninth.
By the President:
Harry S. Truman
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