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• United States Code
• TITLE 36 - PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS
• SUBTITLE I - PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES AND CEREMONIES
• PART A - OBSERVANCES AND CEREMONIES
• CHAPTER 1 - PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES

      The President is requested to issue each year a proclamation - 
        (1) designating the third Friday in May as National Defense
      Transportation Day; and
        (2) urging the people of the United States, including labor,
      management, users, and investors, in all communities served by
      the various forms of transportation to observe National Defense
      Transportation Day by appropriate ceremonies that will give
      complete recognition to the importance to each community and its
      people of the transportation system of the United States and the
      maintenance of the facilities of the system in the most modern
      state of adequacy to serve the needs of the United States in
      times of peace and in national defense.