“This is the day we pay homage to all those who didn’t come home. This is not Veterans Day, it’s not a celebration, it is a day of solemn contemplation over the cost of freedom.” (Tamra Bolton)
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.” (G. K. Chesterton)
“No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.” (St. Ambrose)
“May we never forget our fallen comrades. Freedom isn’t free.” (Sgt. Major Bill Paxton)
“… And if words cannot repay the debt we owe these men, surely with our actions we must strive to keep faith with them and with the vision that led them to battle and to final sacrifice.” (Ronald Reagan”
“Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.” (Gen. Douglas MacArthur)
“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.” (Cynthia Ozick)
“Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices.” (Harry S. Truman)
“And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier’s tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.” (Joseph Rodman Drake)
“No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.” (Gen. Douglas MacArthur)
“Our flag does not fly because the wind moves it. It flies with the last breath of each soldier who died protecting it.” (Eleanor Roosevelt)
“It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.” (Norman Schwarzkopf)
“The patriot’s blood is the seed of freedom’s tree.”(Thomas Campbell)
“Home of the free because of the brave.” (unknown)
“When you go home, tell them of us and say, ‘For your tomorrows these gave their today.’“ (John Maxwell Edmonds)
“Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. (John 15:13)
