Francis Marion Crawford Quotes
They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.
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It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.
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More than anything, falling in love causes a certain female thing in a man to manifest, oddly enough.
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Outside, the main doors behind him, he was hit full in the chest by autumn. The doggy wind leapt about him and nipped; leaves skirred along the pavement, the scrape of the ferrules of sticks; melancholy, that tetrasyllable, sat on a plinth in the middle of the square. English autumn, and the whistling tiny souls of the dead round the war memorial.
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Memorial bracelets memorializing prisoners of war, missing in action, killed in action, and those who died of wounds or injuries sustained in a combat theater are authorized.
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It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century.
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My research, even before 1972, moved in directions beyond those cited for the Nobel Memorial Prize. Most of it, in one way or another, deals with information as an economic variable, both as to its production and as to its use.
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I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.
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I play an 89-year-old man whose wife has Alzheimer's in a movie called 'Still.' I play a World War II veteran, I acted with my son and it's called 'Memorial Day.'
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While tributes to Americans who had lost their lives in battle had been held in a number of towns across the nation, one of the more well-known stories about the beginnings of Memorial Day is the story about General John Logan.
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Memorial Day isn't just about honoring veterans, its honoring those who lost their lives. Veterans had the fortune of coming home. For us, that's a reminder of when we come home we still have a responsibility to serve. It's a continuation of service that honors our country and those who fell defending it.
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The Eisenhower Memorial competition and project have stirred a remarkable polemic, the center of which is not President Eisenhower or Washington, D.C. but Mr. Gehry and the values he promulgates.
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Remarks by President Obama at Memorial Service for Former Israeli President Shimon Peres on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, Israel. (30 September 2016)
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As I said before, stones to me is meant things that hurt people, things that cause pain and thats what this song is about.
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Cause I am not a word, I am not a line. I am not a girl that can ever be defined
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Cause POP POP POP it goes my rubber band. So STOP STOP STOP sniffin that contraband.
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So I will be on the mountain waiting Cause I am in need of more attention
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The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided.
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The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.
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I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
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When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick."
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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The eyes of a young girl can tell everything. And I always look in their eyes. There I can see if I will have a champion.
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They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.
