Memorial Day Quotes - Page 10

• Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was...What was in doubt, in all our minds, was whether there would be any of us left to dedicate our cemetery at the end, or whether the last Marine would die knocking out the last Japanese gun and gunner.

  Graves B. Erskine

  Military, Marine, Gun

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• This was the first Memorial Day [Monday, May 1st, 1865]. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have there is Black Americans recently freed from slavery announcing to the world with their flowers, their feet, and their songs what the war had been about. What they basically were creating was the Independence Day of a Second American Revolution.

  David W. Blight

  Song, Monday, War

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• They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is safer than theirs. We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which they themselves drank.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Spring, Inspiration, Order

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.96, tredition

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• For love of country, they accepted death.

  James A. Garfield

  Country, Memorial, Accepted

  "The works of James Abram Garfield". Volume 1,

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• Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.

  George William Curtis

  Memorial, Conditions, Permanence

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• It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our history held faithful to an ideal. Here men endured that a nation might live.

  Herbert Hoover

  Adversity, Men, Faithful

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• While there are towns and cities still planning Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some think the day is for honoring anyone who has died, not just those fallen in service to our country.

  Allen West

  Country, Thinking, Cities

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• As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.

  Allen West

  Thank You, Veterans Day, Army

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• I am the living death, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne come home, your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave.

  Ron Kovic

  Home, Yankees, July

  Ron Kovic (2016). “Born on the Fourth of July: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.13, Akashic Books

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• Only the dead have seen the end of war.

  Plato

  Death, Plato, Military

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• Canada is lacking two things. It's true. Don't make me say it again. The first is Olympic Heroes [...] The second thing that Canada is lacking is Memorial Day, which is today by the way, where we in the States celebrate our war heroes by having barbeques . And I realize here in Canada you can't have barbeques because you'd probably be attacked by a moose, or caribou, or even a grizzly.

  Kurt Angle

  War, Hero, Two

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• Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.

  Kevin Costner

  Real, Fall, Hero

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something.

  Criss Jami

  Courageous, Heroic, Enough

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.108, Criss Jami

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• I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days, get into my early productive stages about the third week of school, go through my midlife crisis during Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, redouble my efforts at productivity and think about my legacy, say, Easter, and start cashing in my 401(k)s a couple weeks before Memorial Day.

  Chris Crutcher

  Easter, Kings, Couple

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• It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.

  Paddy Chayefsky

  War, Technology, Records

  Paddy Chayefsky (1995). “The Collected Works of Paddy Chayefsky: The Screenplays”, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

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• I was born in Munich, and my father was stationed in Salzburg. For the first three years of my life, I lived in Austria back when the American Army was still in Austria. I grew up subsequently in posts around the country around veterans.

  Rick Atkinson

  Thank You, Country, Father

  "Rick Atkinson talks "The Guns at Last Light"". Interview with John Barron, www.chicagotribune.com. May 10, 2013.

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• Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.

  Frank Knox

  Fire, Patriotism, Purpose

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• In valor there is hope.

  Tacitus

  Veterans Day, Courage, Valor

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• In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.

  Jose Narosky

  Veterans Day, Peace, War

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• The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

  Corra May Harris

  Wisdom, Courage, Brave

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• We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall never surrender and even if, which I do not for the moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the struggle until in God's good time the New World with all its power and might, sets forth to the liberation and rescue of the Old.

  Winston Churchill

  Beach, Military, Believe

  Winston Churchill's speech to the House of Commons, history.hanover.edu. June 4, 1940.

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