Decoration Day Quotes
- 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… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert… — Katherine Paterson
- 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… — Benjamin Harrison