Quote by Joseph E. Persico

I think General Pershing was the most military figure I've ever seen.

— Frank Buckles

“Who chose burial monuments? Were the wishes of the deceased taken into consideration? It was a subject I'd never considered before.”

— Susan Hubbard

“Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life." Yitzhak Rabin”

— Selva Ganesan

“General Pershing now had what he wanted: proof that the AEF was the equal of its allies and the enemy. British generals, however, were…

— Joseph E. Persico

Go to a nearby military cemetery and look at the American flags stuck on each grave and think of the person buried there who…

— Cindy Sheehan

“The nations of the earth through the centuries of time have waged war to gain territory. I think ours is the only nation on…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“Who owns the land adjoinig the cemetery?' 'That is reserved for the expansion of the cemetery.”

— Anonymous

I am not concerned about my posthumous fame. Monuments are no good to the dead.

— Varg Vikernes

Pershing won [WWI] without even looking into an airplane, let alone gong up in one. If they had been of such importance he'd have…

— John W. Weeks

Many peoples tombstones should read, 'Died at 30. Buried at 60.'

— Nicholas Murray Butler

During a mock battle attended by President Warren Harding in 1921, Marine Corps General Smedley D. Butler exhumed the arm [of Stonewall Jackson; he…

— Tony Horwitz

“Granite from New Hampshire has been used in construction at Arlington National Cemetery, the Library of Congress, New York’s Brooklyn Bridge, and Civil War…

— Lori Baird