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Memorial Day Captions. "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." – Winston Churchill. "Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul ...
41. "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."- Martin Luther King, Jr. 42. "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."-
Memorial Day Quotes. “One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one Nation, evermore!”. — Oliver Wendell Holmes. “Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will to love or not; in ...
Memorial Day (originally known as Decoration Day) [1] is one of the federal holidays in the United States for honoring and mourning the U.S. military personnel who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. [2][3] It is observed on the last Monday of May. Memorial Day is also considered the unofficial beginning of summer in the ...
The National Moment of Remembrance is an annual event that asks Americans, wherever they are at 3:00 p.m. local time on Memorial Day, to pause for a duration of one minute to remember those who have died in military service to the United States. The time 3 p.m. was chosen because it is the time when most Americans are enjoying time off of work ...
For many Americans, Memorial Day marks a fun-filled long weekend and the unofficial start of summer. However, the holiday was created for a much more solemn purpose: commemorating the U.S ...
Confederate Memorial Day (called Confederate Heroes Day in Texas and Florida, and Confederate Decoration Day in Tennessee) is a holiday observed in several Southern U.S. states on various dates since the end of the American Civil War. The holiday was originally publicly presented as a day to remember the estimated 258,000 Confederate soldiers ...
Memorial Day falls on Monday, May 27 this year. For many people, the last Monday in May serves as the unofficial start to summer, but the true meaning behind the federal holiday is to honor and ...