Happy Memorial Day to past, present and fallen soldiers. Today we honor you and salute you for defending our country and our… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
“The effects of loss are acute, and unique to each individual. Not everyone mourns in the same way, but everyone mourns.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
There were big geysers coming up where the shells were landing and there were bodies floating, face down, face up. — Elliot Johnson Copy Share Image
Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen… — Allen West Copy Share Image
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids. — James Gates Percival Copy Share Image
Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we… — Richard Hovey Copy Share Image
Looking across this field, we see the scale of heroism and sacrifice. All who are buried here understood their duty. All stood… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Their sacrifice was great, but not in vain. All Americans and every free nation on earth can trace their liberty to the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Words are even more feeble on this Memorial Day, for the sight before us is that of a strong and good nation… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“We are notorious for ‘running’ around self-righteously declaring our rights to this and to that. But if we were to reflect upon… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To be ignorant of the sacrifices of others that yielded the blessings I enjoy leaves me exchanging the reality of 'blessing' for… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as… — Eric Burdon Copy Share Image
While tributes to Americans who had lost their lives in battle had been held in a number of towns across the nation,… — John Linder Copy Share Image
It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
In the United States alone, we spend seven times as much on war as on education. There's something wrong there. On this… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Holocaust Memorial Day is intended as an inclusive commemoration of all the individuals and communities who suffered as a result of the… — Jack Straw Copy Share Image
Peace is the real and right memorial for those who have died in war. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Happy Memorial Day and Thank You to all the vets and their families as well. We honor the vets once a year,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Sometimes you are ready to Pay heavily for few memories because you know they are the only thing left after you have… — Sushan Sharma Copy Share Image
I can think of no better way to honor our fallen Civil War Union soldiers than by reminding Confederate flag-wavers that our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“On this day, take time to remember those who have fallen. But on every day after, do more; put the freedoms they… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the… — Joseph Rodman Drake Copy Share Image
The story of America's quest for freedom is inscribed on her history in the blood of her patriots. — Randy Vader Copy Share Image
Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day. — Will Carleton Copy Share Image
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Memorial Day will be celebrated ... by the usual betrayal of the dead, by the hypocritical patriotism of the politicians and contractors… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
On Memorial Day we come together as Americans to let these families and veterans know that they are not alone. We give… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation… — Michael N. Castle Copy Share Image
Memorial Day is rooted deep in American history and has spanned all of America's major wars since the Civil War. Originally called… — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image
