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"The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude."



Jeff Miller



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Heroism is not only in the man but in the occasion.

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Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.

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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.

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We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them.

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The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.

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Our flag does not fly because the wind moves it. It flies with the last breath of each soldier who died protecting it.

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The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.

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It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag.

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The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender or submission.

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America without her soldiers would be like God without His angels.

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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King Jr.
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We cherish too, the Poppy red that grows on fields where valor led, it seems to signal to the skies that blood of heroes never dies.

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For love of country, they accepted death.

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I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

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They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this nation.

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The dead soldier's silence sings our national anthem.

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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.

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

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The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

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Freedom is never free.

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A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Abraham Lincoln
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Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.

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The patriot's blood is the seed of freedom's tree.

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