“I think that to wish someone a happy Memorial Day is to misunderstand its meaning.”
Camillo Mac Bica
“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.”
“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
“The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.”
Minot J. Savage
“Back in the day, 1979 or 80, I forget which, a VA Psychiatrist who was evaluating me for PTSD, felt the need, for some reason, to tell me he was in the military. "There but for fortune," he said, I would be sitting on the other side of this desk.”
“First they turn us into killers in order to fight their immoral and illegal wars but would rather not know the specifics of what it is that they trained and conditioned us to do. Should we stray from the mythology of nobility and honor, however, and allow them access into our world, and insight into the true nature of war, they are repulsed and outraged and think us crazy and a threat to "normal" people.”
“ we don't fear what we have become but we fear what we could of been”
mark ibrahim
