Memorial Day Quotes
This page is assembled from three others: War, Death and Gratitude. There is no memorial collection underneath it. One poem is filed against the day itself, Joyce Kilmer’s, in Trees and Other Poems (1914), and it opens with a bugle that, he says, is not singing of war today.
The rest is whatever the three source pages rate highest, so it leans toward poetry and toward writers who saw war up close. Several famous lines about death and sacrifice carry flags here, so read the note on a quote’s own page before you attach a name to it.
The verse adorn again
Fierce War, and faithful Love,
And Truth severe, by fairy Fiction drest.
My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s.
I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.
[T]hey possess most gold and silver, by which war, like everything else, flourishes.
War is legitimized state-sponsored terrorism in a grand scale.
Collateral damage during hostage rescue missions is more acceptable than that in an all-out war.