Memorial Day - Never Forget

We who are left how shall we look again

Happily on the sun or feel the rain

Without remembering how they who went

Ungrudgingly and spent

Their lives for us loved, too, the sun and rain?

~Wilfred Wilson Gibson

A hero is someone who has given his or her life

to something bigger than oneself.

~Joseph Campbell

Cover them over with beautiful flowers,

Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours,

Lying so silent by night and by day

Sleeping the years of their manhood away.

Give them the meed they have won in the past;

Give them the honors their future forcast;

Give them the chaplets they won in the strife;

Give them the laurels they lost with their life.

~Will Carleton

The dead soldier's silence sings our national anthem.

~Aaron Kilbourn

We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them.

~Francis A. Walker

I think there is one higher office than president

and I would call that patriot.

~Gary Hart

As we express our gratitude,

we must never forget that the highest appreciation

is not to utter words,

but to live by them.

~John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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