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

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

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

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

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