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Editorial note. For the text of the President's letters to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate, dated April 29, 1988, on Proclamation 5805, see the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, (vol. 24, p. 550)

Proclamation 5806 of April 29, 1988

National Trauma Awareness Month, 1988 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation We can do a great deal of good for ourselves and our fellow Americans the more we realize the toll traumatic injury takes each year in our country—and the more we understand that the extent of this toll is unnecessary, unacceptable, and preventable. National Trauma Awareness Month is an excellent chance for all of us to learn and to do more about the prevention and treatment of traumatic injury. Traumatic injury is a major public health problem that mainly affects young people; it kills more Americans before age 34 than do all diseases combined. Each year, some 140,000 citizens lose their lives to traumatic injury, and 400,000 suffer severe and often permanently disabling brain or spinal cord injury. Some of the many causes include motor vehicle-related injuries, murder, suicide, and falls. It is up to all of us to learn how to reduce the risk of traumatic injury to ourselves and our children. Citizens can initiate behavior changes and sustain them, and volunteer groups, civic organizations, private businesses, health care providers, researchers, academia, and govern-

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