"When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say, For Their Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today"
~An epitaph on the gates of a cemetery in Kohima, India, where Allied war dead are buried.
We're off next week to barbeque with family and friends, get started on the summer blockbuster movie season and remember those who died in service to our country.
In commemoration of the holiday formerly known as Declaration Day, we offer up a few appropriate quotes...
I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.
~Benjamin Harrison
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
~Martin Luther King
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