In Memory: A Memorial Day Tribute 2010

There are many more words that have been published in honor of Memorial Day. Words more fitting, more apt perhaps, words from the families that have lost a child to war in the defense of the idea that was America. As a veteran, I have very deep personal feelings and thoughts about Memorial Day. Those that did not come back with us, no longer have that privilege.
Benjamin Train,
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"It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great
task remaining before us--that from these honored dead
we take increased devotion to that cause for which they
gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here
highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in
vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth
of freedom, and that government of the people, by the
people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."

–Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address, 1863


..."most of them were boys when they died, and they gave
up two lives, the one they were living and the one they
would have lived. When they died, they gave up their
chance to be husbands and fathers and grandfathers.
They gave up their chance to be revered old men.
They gave up everything for our country, for us.
And all we can do is remember "

–President Ronald Reagan