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  • How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

    "Celebrating Our She-roes" by Jill S. Tietjen, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2014.
  • True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

    "Worth Repeating: More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes" by Bob Kelly, p. 169, 2003.
  • To those of you mourn the loss of a loved one today, my heart goes out to you. We remember that the blessings that we enjoy as Americans came at a dear cost. Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we cannot ever fully repay. But we can honor their sacrifice, and we must. We must honor it in our own lives by holding their memories close to our hearts, and heeding the example they set.

  • These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.

  • Our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes - and I see many of them in the audience here today.

    Stupid   Hero   Honor  
    "Obama's Forgettable Memorial Day". www.slate.com. May 27, 2008.
  • Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

    "A Time for Moral Courage". Reader's Digest, July 1964.
  • They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.39, Delphi Classics
  • The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

    "The Czar's Soliloquy". Essay by Mark Twain, first published in The North American Review, No. DLXXX (p. 324), March 1905.
  • And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.

  • Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices.

    United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”
  • I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.

    Benjamin Harrison (1893). “Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President of the United States. March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893”
  • Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

    Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961
  • I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

    Before being executed as a spy by the British, 22 September 1776, in Henry Phelps Johnston 'Nathan Hale, 1776' (1914) ch. 7.
  • The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

    Thomas Campbell, J. Logie Robertson (1884). “The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell”, p.215, Ardent Media
  • We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

    Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961
  • We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

  • Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.

    Remarks by the President at a Memorial Day Service, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 30, 2011.
  • A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

    Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.151, Anchor
  • I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.

    Song: God Bless The U.S.A, Album: American Patriot
  • They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.

  • The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

  • The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.

    Minot Judson Savage (1884). “Poems of modern thought”
  • On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.

  • It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

    Norman Schwarzkopf (2010). “It Doesn't Take a Hero: The Autobiography of General Norman Schwarzkopf”, p.13, Bantam
  • Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

  • As we continue to fight the War on Terror, it is imperative that we protect America's fallen heroes by ensuring that they are treated with respect, while being laid to rest.

    War   Hero   Fighting  
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