While there are towns and cities still planning Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some think the… — Allen West Copy Share Image
“Marshall wished he knew what to call her, wished he could memorialize her somehow. There was dignity in eulogies, in little ribbons… — Aaron Dries Copy Share Image
137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed -… — Doc Hastings Copy Share Image
I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experience that inspires every American… — Yvette Clarke 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
Memorial Day is a special day to take pause and pay tribute to those brave men and women who lost their lives… — Cindy Hyde-Smith Copy Share Image
I'm hugely fond of Scotland. My daughter, Jemma, was born in the Simpson Memorial Maternity Hospital in Edinburgh, and it always tickled… — Rick Wakeman Copy Share Image
“I'm not a big fan of memorials." "Oh yeah?" "A memorial implies that the only victims are the ones in the ground.… — Mariko Tamaki Copy Share Image
“I shouldn't have taken a vow of silence, I told myself. What did I want? Nothing much. Just a memorial. But what… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Go to a nearby military cemetery and look at the American flags stuck on each grave and think of the person buried… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
For a few ticks of the clock I am here, uncomprehending, attempting to make some record or memorial of this eternal passage,… — Louis J. Halle Copy Share Image
If you're smart enough you realise that your possessions possess you in their turn. Collecting has a neurotic aspect. I find it… — Thomas Koerfer Copy Share Image
When night falls over Washington, D.C., memorials, public buildings, and broad avenues become ethereal shapes in soft light and shadow. Floodlights, piercing… — Volkmar Wentzel Copy Share Image
The United States' poetry emerged when there was a high literacy rate in the United States, even in the 19th century. People… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
No tongue is able to declare the greatness of the love that Jesus bears to every soul: and therefore this Spouse, when… — Peter of Alcantara 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
It says more about America, what happened that day, than almost anything since. And yet, we tend to forget. None of us… — Michael Capuano Copy Share Image
Happy Memorial Day Weekend. Please thank a Vet, their families who sacrifice so much and say a prayer for those that paid… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Memorial bracelets memorializing prisoners of war, missing in action, killed in action, and those who died of wounds or injuries sustained in… — James F. Amos Copy Share Image
I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves. — William Westmoreland Copy Share Image
“His face looked almost as gray as his suit, and the pouches beneath his eyes looked like little bags for holding all… — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Copy Share Image
I want to go to the 9/11 Memorial. I heard that's amazing and crazy to look at, an amazing museum. So I… — Sam Darnold Copy Share Image
Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned… — Harry S. Truman 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
“[Josiah P. Mendum memorial at Paine Hall] [He turned] the strait-laced Boston of sixty years ago [into] the enlightened Hub of today,… — Josiah P. Mendum Copy Share Image
This memorial day want to thank all the soldier who died to give us the freedom, God Bless America and God Bless… — Unkown Copy Share Image
Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
“But what is a memorial, when you come right down to it, but a commemoration of wounds endured? Endured, and resented. Without… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Of those that spin out trifles and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Happy Veterans Day, Dad! Thank you for your service and sacrifice for not only our family, but our country. I am so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each and every member of the armed services has contributed to our nation's freedom and liberty. With pride and gratitude we salute… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And now I am ready to keep running When the sun rises beyond the borderlands of death. I already see mountain ridges… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
Most of those whom we honor on Memorial Day died young. They never had the chance to raise a family, build a… — Letitia James Copy Share Image
President Bush paid homage Wednesday to World War II veterans of Normandy at the D-Day Memorial. Later that night, his twin daughters… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
But fame is theirs - and future days On pillar'd brass shall tell their praise; Shall tell - when cold neglect is… — Philip Freneau Copy Share Image
From 1971 onwards, the Memorial Day holiday was officially observed on the last Monday in May and became the unofficial start of… — Allen West Copy Share Image
“I have lived through an eventful year, yet understand no more of it than a babe in arms. Of all the people… — J.M. Coetzee 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
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