Memorial Day Quotes and a Verse...

Memorial Day Quotes and a Verse

"Greater love has no one than this,
that he lay down his life for his friends."
- John 15:13
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"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."
-John A. Logan
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"The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree."
- Thomas Campbell
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"These heroes are dead. They died for liberty – they died for us.
They are at rest. They sleep in the land they made free, under the
flag they rendered stainless, under the solemn pines, the sad hemlocks,
the tearful willows, and the embracing vines. They sleep beneath the
shadows of the clouds, careless alike of sunshine or of storm, each in
the windowless Place of Rest. Earth may run red with other wars -
they are at peace. In the midst of battle, in the roar of conflict,
they found the serenity of death. I have one sentiment for
soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living;
tears for the dead."
- Robert G. Ingersoll
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"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill,
that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship,
support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and
the success of liberty."
- John F. Kennedy
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"The dead soldier's silence sings our national anthem."
- Aaron Kilbourn
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"The greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that
freedom to their children."
- William Havard
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"The purpose of all war is peace."
- St. Augustine
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"Day is done, gone the sun,
From the lake, from the hills, from the sky;
All is well, safely rest, God is nigh.

Go to sleep, peaceful sleep,
May the soldier or sailor,
God keep.
On the land or the deep,
Safe in sleep.

Fading light, dims the sight,
And a star gems the sky, gleaming bright.
From afar, drawing nigh, falls the night.

Thanks and praise, for our days,
'Neath the sun, 'neath the stars, neath the sky;
As we go, this we know, God is nigh.

Sun has set, shadows come,
Time has fled, Scouts must go to their beds,
Always true to the promise that they made.
While the light fades from sight,
And the stars gleaming rays softly send,
To thy hands we our souls, Lord, commend."
- TAPS, words by Union General Dan Butterfield
tune by General Oliver Wilcox Norton