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We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them. - Fra

We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them. – Francis A. Walker

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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. – Joseph Campbell

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For love of country they accepted death… – James A. Garfield

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Perform, then, this one act of remembrance before this Day passes – Remember there is an army of defense and advance that never dies and never surrenders, but is increasingly recruited from the eternal sources of the American spirit and from the generations of American youth. – W.J. Cameron

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Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored. – Daniel Webster

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