Have a nice Memorial Weekend

Have a safe 3 day weekend everyone.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
~Arthur Ashe

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We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart.
~ Albert Einstein

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War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
~John Stuart Mill

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The story of America's quest for freedom is inscribed on her history in the blood of her patriots.
~Randy Vader

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Your silent tents of green
We deck with fragrant flowers;
Yours has the suffering been,
The memory shall be ours.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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For love of country they accepted death...
~James A. Garfield

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And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave;
for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.
~Joseph Drake

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Perform, then, this one act of remembrance before this Day passes - Remember there is an army of defense and advance that never dies and never surrenders, but is increasingly recruited from the eternal sources of the American spirit and from the generations of American youth.
~W.J. Cameron

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And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword.
Ready to do what a hero can.
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning


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The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
~Thucydides

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The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.
~Thucydides

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It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
~ General George Patton

Thank you. We will forever be in your debt.