CHAPTER 468
STATE OF DELAWARE
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, by Public Law No. 85-529 of the 85th Congress (House Joint Resolution 479, July 18, 1958, the House of Representatives and the Senate of the United States concurring), May 1st of every year has been designated as National Loyalty Day; and
WHEREAS, by House Joint Resolution #6, 121st General Assembly, State of Delaware, May 1st has been designated as a "special day" for annual observance in the State of Delaware as Loyalty Day; and
WHEREAS, throughout our nation and our state, the Veterans of Foreign Wars annually mark this occasion with special and appropriate ceremonies; and
WHEREAS, such occasions provide an opportunity for all citizens to reaffirm their faith in the United States and to rededicate themselves to the principles upon which our great Nation was founded; and
WHEREAS, there have been varied attempts over the last two centuries to stifle and destroy the hard-won rights of free speech, freedom of the press, and the right to worship as one chooses; and
WHEREAS, each of us should make a personal pledge to uphold these God-given rights in the defense for which thousands of our fighting forces died on battlefields all over the world; now
THEREFORE, I, ELBERT N. CARVEL, Governor of Delaware, do hereby proclaim May 1, 1964, as
LOYALTY DAY
in Delaware and urge that on his day all citizens of our State join in reaffirming their undivided allegiance to the government of the United States and the ideals which it defends and preserves. Civic groups are urged to join with our veterans in ceremonies and exercises that will appropriately demonstrate such loyalty, and in display of our National Emblem and the Delaware Day Flag.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I, Elbert N. Carvel, Governor of the State of Delaware, have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the said State to be hereunto affixed at Dover this 14th day of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the one hundred and eighty-eighth.
(GREAT SEAL)
ELBERT N. CARVEL, Governor
ELISHA C. DUKES, Secretary of State