In their honor, I turn my post over to the oh-so-eloquent Oliver Wendell Holmes:
So to the indifferent inquirer who asks why Memorial Day is still kept up we may answer, it celebrates and solemnly reaffirms from year to year a national act of enthusiasm and faith. It embodies in the most impressive form our belief that to act with enthusiasm and faith is the condition of acting greatly.
To fight out a war, you must believe something and want something with all your might. So must you do to carry anything else to an end worth reaching. More than that, you must be willing to commit yourself to a course, perhaps a long and hard one, without being able to foresee exactly where you will come out.
But grief is not the end of all. I seem to hear the funeral march become a paean. I see beyond the forest the moving banners of a hidden column. Our dead brothers still live for us, and bid us think of life, not death — of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and joy of the spring.
As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.
The missing million ... indeed ... you are missed.
THE SOURCE OF THE QUOTES:
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/columnists/ginniegraham/ginnie-graham-take-a-moment-to-read-the-best-memorial/article_5915e573-851d-5a2d-b0f8-12d90f758193.html
MORE QUOTES (FROM PRESIDENTS):
http://www.bustle.com/articles/163151-15-memorial-day-quotes-from-us-presidents-that-remind-us-why-this-holiday-is-important
SEEMS FITTING:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WChTqYlDjtI
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