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Memorial Day Captions. "Who kept the faith and fought the fight; the glory theirs, the duty ours." – Wallace Bruce. "A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than ...
1. “Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay.”-. Barack Obama. 2. “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to ...
Memorial Day falls on Monday, May 27 this year. For many people, the last Monday in May serves as the unofficial start to summer, but the true meaning behind the federal holiday is to honor and ...
Gregory D. Gadson. Gregory Dimitri Gadson (born February 19, 1966) is an American actor and motivational speaker; and a retired colonel in the United States Army and former commander of the U.S. Army Fort Belvoir garrison. [1] He is also a bilateral above-the-knee amputee. He served in the U.S. Army for 25 years of active duty as a field ...
I Have a Dream, August 28, 1963, Educational Radio Network [ 1] " I Have a Dream " is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist and Baptist minister [ 2] Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. In the speech, King called for civil and economic rights and an end to ...
The National Moment of Remembrance is an annual event that asks Americans, wherever they are at 3:00 p.m. local time on Memorial Day, to pause for a duration of one minute to remember those who have died in military service to the United States. The time 3 p.m. was chosen because it is the time when most Americans are enjoying time off of work ...
Memorial Day Quotes. “One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one Nation, evermore!”. — Oliver Wendell Holmes. “Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will to love or not; in ...
First time. May 30, 1868. Memorial Day(originally known as Decoration Day)[1]is one of the federal holidays in the United Statesfor honoring and mourning the U.S. military personnel who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. [2][3]It is observed on the last Mondayof May.