Links&Articles

Page Contents:
                TCF Web sites: National web site, Websites in various states, and International web sites.
                Grief Support Web Sites: Various support websites including SIDS, MISS, SPAN, Operation Angel and others
                Bereaved Parents Wish List: Compiled by Diane Collins TCF, Bay Area Chapter, Houston
                National Children Memorial: A proclamation by the President of the United States 1998
                 National Magazine: Information on how to subscribe to the National Magazine.

	Share Atlanta:...........................................	For parents who have experienced miscarriage or neonatal loss.
	Alexey's Memorial-Page .......................	Golden tears of a grieving Father.
	S.P.A.N........................................................	Suicide Prevention Advocacy Network
	Parents of Suicides ..................................	It is for parents whose sons and daughters died from suicide.
	Grieving Parents ......................................	Grieving Parents support group
	Grieving Grandparents ............................	Grieving Grandparents support group
	SIDS ..........................................................	Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Other Infant Death
	Grief Healing ...........................................	Information and support to those who are coping with the death of a loved one
	The Bereavement Journey	An email support group, also a place where people can come in and chat.

December 11, 1998
NATIONAL CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL DAY, 1998

THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release December 11, 1998

NATIONAL CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL DAY, 1998

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION

There is nothing more devastating to a family than the death of a child. Each year, thousands of America's families face this tragedy, losing their children to illness, injury or accident. Our whole society experiences this loss as well, for we are all diminished by the death of every one of our young people, whose love, laughter, talents, and achievements bring so much joy to our lives and so much promise to our future. The holiday season is an especially painful time for parents who have lost a child, so it is fitting that we set aside a special day during this month to acknowledge the grief of these families and to pay tribute to the lives and memories of their children. On National Children's Memorial Day, let us all reach out, whether as individuals or as members of caring communities, to offer bereaved families the compassion, support, and understanding they need to begin the process of healing. NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim December 13, 1998, as National Children's Memorial Day. I call upon the American people to observe this day with appropriate programs and activities in remembrance of the infants, children, teenagers, and young adults who have died and to bring comfort to their families. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this eleventh day of December, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-third.

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