Memorial Day 2012

For our men and women in service to the

United States of America, we salute you.

Memorial Day, in my humble opinion, isn't about being a Democrat, Republican, Independent, etc. To me it's about being an American with freedoms hard fought for. 

Today, stop for a moment and think of all our service men and women, living and not.  Pass on the quotes, they're for all of us.  ~LA of the Scribes.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
~ Arthur Ashe

They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours.  ~ Wallace Bruce



A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
~ Joseph Campbell

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
~ Norman Schwarzkopf

And I'm proud to be an American,
where at least I know I'm free.
And I won't forget the men who died
who gave that right to me.
~ Lee Greenwood

The brave die never, though they sleep in dust:
Their courage nerves a thousand living men.
~ Minot J. Savage

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. ~ Thomas Campbell

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.  ~ Benjamin Disraeli
Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for,
Is their monument to-day, and for aye. ~ Thomas Dunn English

For thee of country they accepted death...  ~ James A. Garfield

The greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom to their children.
~ William Havard

On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!  ~ Thomas William Parson

We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them. ~ Francis A. Walker