Here are some famous quotes worth contemplating.
Our flag does not fly because the wind moves it. It flies with the last breath of each soldier who died protecting it.
Unknown
This is the day we pay homage to all those who didn’t come home. This is not Veterans Day, it’s not a celebration, it is a day of solemn contemplation over the cost of freedom.
Tamra Bolton
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes.
Maya Angelou
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.
John F. Kennedy
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
St. Ambrose
Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices.
Harry S. Truman
And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier’s tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.”
Joseph Rodman Drake
Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.
Jennifer M. Granholm
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Elmer Davis
Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours.
Wallace Bruce
For love of country they accepted death, and thus resolved all doubts, and made immortal their patriotism and their virtue.
James A. Garfield
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God such men lived.
George S. Patton
Home of the free, because of the brave.
Unknown
