Proclamation 2654—Flag Day, 1945
05/27/1945
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This ceremony could be no more than a magnificent burial.
We venerate these documents not because they are old, not because they are valuable historical relics, but because they ...
It would have involved us in all-out war in the Far East, and we have been strenuously trying to avoid that all the time...
Say in about 6 months.