Thomas Bailey Aldrich's Quote - 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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