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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 ...
May 24, 2024 at 12:11 PM. Chad Madden on Unsplash. To U.S. Army veteran Ryan Timmermans, Memorial Day is a Monday like any other. He doesn’t need a holiday to remember his friends and colleagues ...
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 ...
A remembrance poppy is an artificial flower worn in some countries to commemorate their military personnel who died in war. Remembrance poppies are produced by veterans ' associations, which exchange the poppies for charitable donations used to give financial, social and emotional support to members and veterans of the armed forces.
The Paliya memorial stones are associated with ancestral worship in western India. These memorials are worshipped by people of associated community or descendants of a person on special days such as death day of person, event anniversaries, festivals, auspicious days in Kartika, Shravana or Bhadrapada months of Hindu calendar. These memorials ...
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 ...
The illegal wildlife trade is the illegal trading of plants and wildlife. This illegal trading is worth an estimate of 7-23 billion [30] and an annual trade of around 100 million plants and animals. [31] In 2021 it was found that this trade has caused a 60% decline in species abundance, and 80% for endangered species. [31]