Memorial Day 2010

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

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a

great example. — Benjamin Disraeli

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

For love of country they accepted death… — James A. Garfield

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

 

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. -Thomas Campbell

Chad receiving his new rank of Major. October 2009

Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave”

“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

Is’t death to fall for Freedom’s right?  He’s dead alone who lacks her light! – Thomas Campbell

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

-Randy Vader

“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

Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books. -Walt Whitman-

The greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom to their children. -William Havard