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Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.


Robert Byrne


#farewell #left #memorial #party #service

Graves aren't for the dead. They're for the loved ones the dead leave behind them. Once those loved ones have gone, once all the lives that have touched the occupant of any given grave had ended, then the grave's purpose was fulfilled and ended. I suppose if you looked at it that way, one might as well decorate one's grave with an enormous statue or a giant temple. It gave people something to talk about, at least. Although, following that logic, I would need to have a roller coaster, or maybe a Tilt-A-Whirl constructed over my own grave when I died. Then even after my loved ones had moved on, people could keep having fun for years and years. Of course, I'd need a slightly larger plot.


Jim Butcher


#graves #memorial #death

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


William J. Clinton


#america #cannot #cured #nothing #right

Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.


E. Joseph Cossman


#least #let us #live #lived #long

There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place protected from the streets, because it is below. And it can be something very moving and very private.


Daniel Libeskind


#beautiful place #because #become #below #competition

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


#across #battle #been #beginnings #day

Every memorial in its time has a different goal.


Maya Lin


#every #goal #memorial #time

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.


Maya Lin


#anything #because #deliberately #did #eclipsed

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.


Maya Lin


#designed #ends #futile #i #iii

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.


Harold MacMillan


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