Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays....

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

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Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty! – Lucy Larcom

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

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

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