Memorial Day Weekend Quotes by Rich Sommer, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John F. Kennedy, Thomas Dunn English, Francis Marion Crawford, Richard Watson Gilder and many others.
Three times a year, theres Strategicon convention, and I go for the board games. It happens Presidents Day, Labor Day, and Memorial Day weekends. You go and take a look at the new board games and meet a couple of board game designers, and you can check out games you dont own from the library and then return them.
They are dead; but they live in each Patriot’s breast, And their names are engraven on honor’s bright crest.
We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.
They fell, but o’er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.
Better than honor and glory, and History’s iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.
“Dead upon the field of glory,”
Hero fit for song and story.
Hero fit for song and story.
On Memorial Day, I don’t want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided republic.
I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free.
Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There’s none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.
The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier’s tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.
137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America’s most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed – it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.
With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.
Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours.
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