Cremation is preferable to burial as a way of disposing of corpses.
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 they die
An equal death,—the idler and the man
Of mighty deeds.
Death is an equall doome
To good and bad, the common In of rest.
A feat of chivalry, fiery with consummate courage, and bright with flashing vigor.
In war you learn your lessons, and they stay learned, but the tuition fees are high.
'Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.