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.
And so we went to war against al Qaeda to protect our citizens, our friends, and our allies.
And each new act of war is tonight's entertainment.
We're still the pawns in their game.
The immediate reaction of the poets who fought in the war was cynicism...
Defect, G.I. It is a very good idea to leave a sinking ship. You know you cannot win this war.
Some cretin says we never declared war. Some cretin is trying to lecture me.
... we only, left alone, have endured the fury of the war ...