May 31, 2010 – Today is Memorial Day or United States Federal Holiday. It was formerly known as Decoration Day. It honors the U.S. soldiers who died while in the military service. It is celebrated and observed in the last Monday of May. Send your family and friends some quotations for Memorial day to remember, honor and give importance to the soldiers who died while serving the country and the countrymen.
Looking for Memorial Day 2010 quotes and poems? Well, you are in the right place. Here are some Memorial Day Quotes and poems that you may send thru SMS messaging and E-cards.
“Green sods are all their monuments; and yet it tells
A nobler history than pillared piles,
Or the eternal pyramids.”
~James Gates Percival
“Is’t death to fall for Freedom’s right?
He’s dead alone who lacks her light!”
~Thomas Campbell
“The brave die never, though they sleep in dust:
Their courage nerves a thousand living men.”
~Minot J. Savage
“Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays…. The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.” ~Thomas Bailey Aldrich
We who are left how shall we look again
Happily on the sun or feel the rain
Without remembering how they who went
Ungrudgingly and spent
Their lives for us loved, too, the sun and rain?
~Wilfred Wilson Gibson
“Better than honor and glory, and History’s iron pen,
Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.”
~Richard Watson Gilder
Happy Memorial day.
Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all of those brave brave soldiers who have fought in wars for us. People never really appreciate today. They just say Awsome no work, or no school yay! But I think it’s wrong. Memorial day is more than that. Its about the brave soldiers who fought in past wars and died. I want to say I really appreciate them, and everyone else should too!