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  • But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.

    Thomas Dunn English (1885). “The Boy's Book of Battle-lyrics: A Collection of Verses Illustrating Some Notable Events in the History of the United States of America, from the Colonial Period to the Outbreak of the Sectional War”
  • Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.

    Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1903). “Ponkapog Papers”
  • They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.

  • Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?

  • Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.

    New Numbers no. 4 (1914) "The Dead"
  • My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

    Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961
  • 137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.

    FaceBook post by Doc Hastings from May 28, 2013
  • It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

    Sympathy   Death   Wisdom  
    Speech at the Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, on June 07, 1945. "Patton, ordeal and triumph". Book by Ladislas Farago, 1963.
  • I see in the FBI 302, which was put out on Memorial Day weekend in print about this big where you needed to use a magnifying glass to read it, but I read it twice, I saw something that really concerned me.It said Hillary Clinton can't remember her exit interview from the CIA because she had no memory for a period of time after she had a concussion. She was secretary of state when she had no memory. Now there's something really seriously wrong with it.

    "Things just got very, very heated between Rudy Giuliani and Chris Matthews". Interview with Aaron Blake, www.washingtonpost.com. September 8, 2016.
  • 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.
  • Three times a year, theres Strategicon convention, and I go for the board games. It happens Presidents Day, Labor Day, and Memorial Day weekends. You go and take a look at the new board games and meet a couple of board game designers, and you can check out games you dont own from the library and then return them.

  • And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.

  • Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth.

    Thomas Moore (1850). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore”, p.177
  • On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!

    Thomas William Parsons (1866). “The magnolia [verse].”, p.29
  • 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
  • Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours.

  • Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.

    James Gates Percival, Erasmus Darwin North (1859). “The poetical works of James Gates Percival”, p.286
  • "Dead upon the field of glory," Hero fit for song and story.

  • 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
  • With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.

    Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other papers”
  • They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.

  • Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided republic.

    "Memorial Day Order" by John A. Logan, www.cem.va.gov. May 5, 1868.
  • The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

  • Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.

    Richard Watson Gilder (1900). “Five Books of Song”
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