Memorial Day Quotes

• It appeared to be just one of those awful accidents -- terrible that it occurred on Memorial Day (weekend).

  

  Frank Keating
  • Terrible
  • Accidents
  • Awful

• Holocaust Memorial Day is intended as an inclusive commemoration of all the individuals and communities who suffered as a result of the Holocaust - not only Jews, but also Gypsies, Slavs, homosexuals, political prisoners and dozens of ethnic and other minorities.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Political
  • Holocaust
  • Memorial

• They, and we, are the legacies of an unbroken chain of proud men and women who served their country with honor, who waged war so that we might know peace, who braved hardship so that we might know opportunity, who paid the ultimate price so that we might know freedom.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• In the United States alone, we spend seven times as much on war as on education. There's something wrong there. On this Memorial Day, we should certainly honor those who have died at war, but we should dedicate this day, not so much to their memory, but to the search for a way to end the idiocy of the wars that killed them.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • War
  • Education
  • Alone

• On Memorial Day we come together as Americans to let these families and veterans know that they are not alone. We give thanks for those who sacrificed everything so that we could be free. And we commit ourselves to upholding the ideals for which so many patriots have fought and died.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Together
  • Free
  • Giving

• Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all our service men and women past and present. You are not forgotten!

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Men
  • Women
  • Happy