#memorial

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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


#cities #country #day #decades #died

The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.


William Westmoreland


#dead #just #listed #masterpiece #memorial

When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.


William Westmoreland


#came #celebrations #home #memorial #parades

I spent some time at White Memorial Medical Center as a senior medical student doing a rotation in surgery; however, I felt I wasn't getting enough time assisting.


Samuel Wilson


#center #doing #enough #felt #getting

On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!


Alexander Henry


#country #flag #hope #language #republic

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.


Michael Ignatieff


#america #called #could #feeling #intense

Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.


Robert Byrne


#farewell #left #memorial #party #service

We do this thing. We open our hearts to the world around us. And the more we do that, the more we allow ourselves to love, the more we are bound to find ourselves one day - like Dave, and Morley, and Sam, and Stephanie - standing in the kitchen of our live, surrounded by the ones we love, and feeling empty, and alone, and sad, and lost for words, because one of our loved ones, who should be there, is missing. Mother or father, brother or sister, wife or husband, or a dog or cat. It doesn't really matter. After a while, each death feels like all the deaths, and you stand there like eveyone else has stood there before you, while the big wind of sadness blows around and through you. "He was a great dog," said Dave. "Yes," said Morley. "He was a great dog.


Stuart McLean


#death

These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.


Michael N. Castle


#battles #character #country #fallen #fought

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.


William J. Clinton


#america #cannot #cured #nothing #right