Military history Quote by Susan Wiggs

Remembrance of things past.

— William Shakespeare

“He liked churchyards. The graves themselves, were, of course, important, being the final resting places for the earthly remains of people-real people just like…

— Charmian Hussey

Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

— Buzz Aldrin

A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while you were…

— Sandra Bernhard

“There was a long hard time when I kept far from me, the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite…

— Charles Dickens

The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now…

— Spencer Bachus

“I remembered when I'd closed it up at the start of the war, remembered when I'd thought of the trunk as a coffin for…

— Kurt Vonnegut

As well as remembering the service of the non-white soldiers and auxiliaries of the first world war, we have also to remember what happened…

— David Olusoga

“I watched as people went to the memorial reading the names. I started at the first entry from 1954. I read each one quietly…

— Janelle Gray

“In memory of all our brave soldiers who have lost their lives in action including my own grandfather “Gunner Thomas Henry Caunter”

— Kimberley Chambers

“But what is a memorial, when you come right down to it, but a commemoration of wounds endured? Endured, and resented. Without memory, there…

— Margaret Atwood

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