Memorial Day Quotes - Page 9

• There were big geysers coming up where the shells were landing and there were bodies floating, face down, face up.

  Elliot Johnson

  Floating, Shells, Body

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• Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers.

  Zach Wamp

  Thank You, Veterans Day, Prayer

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• Matt looked up kids from his high school class. Only three were listed as dead, but a bunch were listed as missing/presumed dead. As a test, he looked us up, but none of our names were on any of the lists. And that's how we know we're alive this Memorial Day.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  School, Kids, Class

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have not yet begun to fight!

  John Paul Jones

  Military, War, 4th Of July

  Quoted in John Henry Sherburne, Life and Character of the Chevalier John Paul Jones (1825).

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• We should not take a Memorial Day recess until we pass a proper memorial for the slain students in Littleton, Colorado, and other school gun tragedies.

  John Conyers

  School, Gun, Tragedy

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• It's horrible to think that a small cadre of people would manipulate that information. I mean, for God's sake, we've admitted that we were experimenting on our veterans with mustard gas. So there is no security question. It can't possibly be the reason.

  Dwight Schultz

  Thank You, Mean, Thinking

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• Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!

  William H. Prescott

  Military, War, Eye

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• True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Life, Courage, Brave

  "Maxims". Book by Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1665.

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• We sit at our consoles and play "Gears of War", but we don't see images from war. We don't turn on the news and see the evidence of war, the result of war. Maybe twice a year, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, we'll go out, we'll hang our flags, we'll try to inculcate in our children some sense of national honor for the fallen. But really, we don't see it. We just don't see the pictures. There's no drive-by on the freeway of death up close. So we don't really see bravery.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Veterans Day, Children, War

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I used to come out here every Fourth of July as a child to picnic and to swim on the island, to tour the fort and wander through it. And all of that time, I never knew anything about the presence of black soldiers on the island. And so, for me, this was a way of trying to tell another history, a lost or a forgotten or a little-known history about these black soldiers who played an important part in American history.” Trethewey said.
  Coincidentally, she was born “exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.

  Natasha Trethewey

  Children, Islands, July

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• Go to a nearby military cemetery and look at the American flags stuck on each grave and think of the person buried there who was killed for global domination or for the blunders and egomania of our leadership. And remember, for every person buried there, 10 more loved that person and were shattered by the loss. Instead of saluting, softly say: 'I'm sorry.' ... We need to make Memorial Day a relic of the past.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Sorry, War, Military

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• From Memorial Day to Labor Day, you may wear white shoes. Not before and not after. As a command, the White Shoe Edict should be clear and simple enough. Do not violate it. In a society in which everything else has become relative, a matter of how it makes you feel, a question between you and your conscience, and an opportunity for you to be really you, this is an absolute.

  Judith Martin

  Opportunity, Simple, Shoes

  Judith Martin (1990). “Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Rich Sommer

  Couple, Weekend, Years

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• All's fair in love and war.

  Francis Edward Smedley

  Love, Life, Tattoo

  Francis Edward SMEDLEY (1854). “Frank Fairlegh; or scenes from the life of a private pupil. By F. E. Smedley. With illustrations ... by G. Cruikshank”, p.434

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• Because Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama failed to provide a status of forces agreement and leave sufficient troops in there, we are back at war. The president just ordered more troops on the ground. We are back at war in Iraq. And Scott Zubowski, whose mom would always come to Memorial Day events in Newcastle, Indiana, to see me, and I'd give her a hug and tell her we're never going to forget her son and we never will, Scott Zubowski and the sacrifices the American soldier made were squandered in Iraq because this administration created a vacuum in which ISIS was able to grow.

  Mike Pence

  Mom, War, Sacrifice

  "Transcript of the 2016 Debate Between the Running Mates". www.nytimes.com. October 5, 2016.

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• Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.

  William Allen White

  Libertarian Party, Giving, Liberty

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• While tributes to Americans who had lost their lives in battle had been held in a number of towns across the nation, one of the more well-known stories about the beginnings of Memorial Day is the story about General John Logan.

  John Linder

  Numbers, Battle, Stories

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• I pledge to support the American workforce by wearing only American designers: Calvin Klein between Memorial Day and Labor Day, Donna Karan the rest of the year. Unless I wake up and the day is screaming for me to put on a bikini for my fellow Americans. Country first.

  Paris Hilton

  Country, Support, Labor Day

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I see in the FBI 302, which was put out on Memorial Day weekend in print about this big where you needed to use a magnifying glass to read it, but I read it twice, I saw something that really concerned me.It said Hillary Clinton can't remember her exit interview from the CIA because she had no memory for a period of time after she had a concussion. She was secretary of state when she had no memory. Now there's something really seriously wrong with it.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Memories, Weekend, Glasses

  "Things just got very, very heated between Rudy Giuliani and Chris Matthews". Interview with Aaron Blake, www.washingtonpost.com. September 8, 2016.

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• Memorial Day should be a day for putting flowers on graves and planting trees. Also, for destroying the weapons of death that endanger us more than they protect us, that waste our resources and threaten our children and grandchildren.

  Howard Zinn

  Children, Flower, Tree

  Howard Zinn (2001). “Howard Zinn on War”, p.97, Seven Stories Press

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• In the United States alone, we spend seven times as much on war as on education. There's something wrong there. On this Memorial Day, we should certainly honor those who have died at war, but we should dedicate this day, not so much to their memory, but to the search for a way to end the idiocy of the wars that killed them.

  Andy Rooney

  Memories, War, Honor

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• On Memorial Day we come together as Americans to let these families and veterans know that they are not alone. We give thanks for those who sacrificed everything so that we could be free. And we commit ourselves to upholding the ideals for which so many patriots have fought and died.

  Barack Obama

  Giving, Together, Veteran

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• Memorial Day orators will say that a G.I.'s life is priceless. Don't believe it. I know what value the U.S. government assigns to a soldier's life: I've been handed the check. It's roughly what the Yankees will pay Roger Clemens per inning once he starts pitching next month.

  Andrew Bacevich

  Believe, Yankees, Government

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• When we ponder that vast throng who have died honorably defending home and hearth, we contemplate those immortal words, 'Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.' The feelings of heartfelt gratitude for the supreme sacrifice made by so many cannot be confined to a Memorial Day, a military parade, or a decorated grave.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Gratitude, Military, Home

  FaceBook post by Thomas S Monson from Nov 11, 2014

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• There's no greater city between Memorial Day and Labor Day than Chicago. It's the single best summer city in America.

  Michael Wilbon

  Summer, Cities, America

  "The Chat House With Michael Wilbon: Tiger Woods, Michael Vick and the NFL". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. August 17, 2009.

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