We remember you. Your life, your love, your duty, your sacrifice. Memorial Day is a day to remember those who have lost their lives defending our country and our freedom. As my one friend Tammy said today, ” There will be many people with an empty seat at the table on Memorial Day.” Let us remember those who have given the ultimate sacrifice for their country and give honor where honor is due.
We Remember You – 15 Memorial Day Quotes 2018
- “Memorial Day is an opportunity to pause and reflect on the sacrifices of the more than one million Soldiers, Marines, Sailors, Airmen, and Coast Guardsmen who have made the ultimate sacrifice to secure our freedom.” – General Norton Schwartz
- “We must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” J. F. Kennedy
- “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 - “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children through the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same” – Ronald Regan
- “And they who for their country die shall fill an honred grave,
for glory lights the soldier’s tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.” – Joseph Rodman Drake - “Let every nation know whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.” – J. F. Kennedy
- “Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” – Thomas Paine
- “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends” – google tJohn 15:13
- “May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.” – Peter Marshall
- “A nation that does not honor its heros will not long endure.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.” – Elmer Davis
- ” A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself” – Joseph Campbell
- “It is foolish and wong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God such men lived.” – George S Patton
- “A soldier doesn’t fight because of what is in front of him – he fights because he loves what he left behind.” – Unknown
- “We cherish too, the Poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led,
It seems to signal to the skies,
That blood of heroes never dies.” – Mona Michael
,build a life, and then they get deployed. Husbands and wives, Parents and childred – they find themselves separated for weeks, to months, to years at a time.
”It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what is required.” — Winston Churchill
