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.
Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.
It's a lie. I agree with the military experts who say it's a quagmire.
At stake with something more important than sex. At stake was life and death.
That was the true terror of war, that often one had to accept danger and simply wait to live or die.