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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They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation. – Henry Ward Beecher

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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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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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