Memorial Day
Thank you to friends, family, and strangers alike who have served this country so that I and those like me may continue to live in peace and prosperity.
World War I 116,516 killed, 204,002 wounded.1
World War II 407,316 killed, 670,846 wounded.1
Korea 33,651 killed 103,284 wounded.1
Vietnam 58,168 killed, 153,303 wounded.1
Gulf War 382 killed, 486 wounded.1
Iraq War 4,301 killed so far, at least 31,285 wounded.
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
~John F. Kennedy
What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.
~Robert E. Lee
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
~Thomas Jefferson
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
~Abraham Lincoln
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
~Benjamin Franklin
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
~H.L. Mencken
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
~William Faulkner
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
~Pentagon official explaining why the U.S. military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
~Georges Clemenceau
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
~Mahatma Gandhi
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
~Mao Tse-Tung
It is well that war is so terrible – otherwise we would grow too fond of it.
~Robert E. Lee
We make war that we may live in peace.
~Aristotle
In the last days the mountain of the LORD’s temple will be established as chief among the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.
Many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths.” The law will go out from Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.
~Isaiah 2:2-4
Vietnam War Memorial
Korean War Memorial
WWII Memorial
The Great War
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