National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk

Signed October 14, 2025, printed at 90 FR 48371. 84 words.

In plain English

This sets a day to remember Charlie Kirk. He was shot and killed on September 10, 2025. The day falls on what would have been his birthday.

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What It Says

. I call on the American people to assemble on this day in their respective places of worship, there to pay homage to Charlie's memory. I invite the people of our Nation to pray for the advancement of peace, truth, and justice all across our country. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this fourteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fiftieth.

What a Proclamation Is

A proclamation speaks to the country rather than to the government. Most mark a day or an occasion; some carry real legal effect, and the tariff proclamations are the ones that do.

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