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.
On November 7, 2006, Cafferty called Donald Rumsfeld "an obnoxious jerk and war criminal".
Jerusalem-which sometimes feels like the frontline of an ongoing war
'In war-time,' I said, 'truth is so precious she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.'
...only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.