Memorial Day 2018
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.”
George S. Patton
United States Army General
“It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.”
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.
United States Army General
“How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!”
Maya Angelou
American Poet & Civil Rights Activist
“If silence is ever golden, it must be here beside the graves of fifteen thousand men, whose lives were more significant than speech, and whose death was a poem, the music of which can never be sung.”
James Garfield
20th President of the United States
"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.”
John F. Kennedy
35th President of the United States