“Memorial Day is the occasion this nation sets aside to remember, to grieve, and to honor those who chose or were compelled to sacrifice their lives in behalf of a cause they believed or were told was just. Those of us who have known war hear the cries of the dying forever echo in our minds and suffer the pain and loss each day of our lives. We need no holiday to remind us.”
Camillo Mac Bica
“Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?”
Henry Ward Beecher
“I think that to wish someone a happy Memorial Day is to misunderstand its meaning.”
“The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.”
Minot J. Savage
“Almost every war ends, properly, with its veterans feeling deceived and pointless and gullible, with their being persuaded that all participants were equally vile.”
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“These are war veterans who fought for their country, and the army also has war veterans in it,”
Robert Mugabe
“Veterans of the Vietnam War have waited over 20 years for a meaningful response to the complex issues surrounding their hidden wounds. I can only hope that if veterans of the war with Iraq suffer their own hidden wounds, they will not have to endure that same fate.”
Tom Daschle
