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My first visit to Disney World was for the first part of my honeymoon (second part layout coming soon). Even though it was March with winter barely over, Florida alternated between hot and humid, and it really reminded me of summer.

Some summer quotes to make your summer day

A life without love is like a year without summer.
~ Swedish Proverb

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
~ James Dent

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
~ St. Francis of Assisi

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
~ Russel Baker

August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
~ William Law

Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.
~ Kahlil Gibran

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
~ Erma Bombeck

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
~ Rupert Brooke

Celebrate Summer - Sun drenched days and starlit nights…
~ Gooseberry Patch

Colored scents that fill the air as drowsy insects hum around in the meadow is the place of secret magic where nature alone renews itself.
~ Kate Bergquist

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
~ Sam Keen

Dirty hands, iced tea, garden fragrances thick in the air and a blanket of color before me, who could ask for more?
~ Bev Adams

Heat, ma’am! it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
~ Sydney Smith

I know that if odor were visible, as color is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
~ Robert Bridges

I live on an island and listen to jazz all day long. The sun is always shining, but you can still see the stars. The breeze sings astonishingly like Ella and the wind rumbles in a Louis way. My friends and I dance under magic skies.
~ Author Unknown

Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
~ John Ruskin

Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that alls right with the world.
~ Ada Louise Huxtable

Summer set lip to earth’s bosom bare,
And left the flushed print in a poppy there.
~ Francis Thompson

The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.
~James Russell Lowell

The steady buzzzzzzz of the Katydid chorus, and the bass solo of the croaking Frog - a summer night’s serenade.
~ Michael P. Garofalo

The Summer looks out from her brazen tower,
Through the flashing bars of July.
~ Francis Thompson

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
~ Wallace Stevens

Then followed that beautiful season… Summer….
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape
Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.
~ Celia Thaxter

To believe in life is to believe there will always be someone who will water the geraniums.
~ Flavia

To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -
True Poems flee.
~ Emily Dickinson

We are much more likely to experience a sense of plenty when we are relaxed.
~ SARK

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
~ Jane Austen

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.
~ Gertrude Jekyll

What is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.
~ James Russell Lowell

When I was a little kid, of course, I was brown all summer. That’s because I was free as a bird- nothing to do but catch bugs all day.
~ Roy Blount Jr.

Who has not dreamed a world of bliss on a bright, sunny noon like this?
~ William Howitt

Yellow butterflies look like flowers flying through the warm summer air.
~ Andrea Willis

You can never appreciate the shade of a tree unless you sweat in the sun.
~ Author Unknown

I question not if thrushes sing,
If roses load the air;
Beyond my heart I need not reach
When all is summer there.
~ John Vance Cheney

I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.
~ L. M. Montgomery

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.
~ Bern Williams

In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
~ Aldo Leopold

In summer, the song sings itself.
~ William Carlos Williams

In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way
I have to go to bed by day.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
~ John Cheever

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
~ Hal Borland

Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.
~ Thomas Browne

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer’s year - it brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.
~ Author Unknown

No bought potpourri is so pleasant as that made from ones own garden, for the petals of the flowers one has gathered at home hold the sunshine and memories of summer, and of past summers only the sunny days should be remembered.
~ Eleanor Sinclair-Rhode

Oh, bring again my heart’s content,
Thou Spirit of the Summer-time!
~ William Allingham

Oh, the summer night
Has a smile of light
And she sits on a sapphire throne.
~ Barry Cornwall

People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
~ Anton Chekhov

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
~ John Lubbock

Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
~ Warren Buffett

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
~ Henry James

Summer has now thrown open her emerald doors. Every part of the landscape is profuse in leaves and flowers, and “green-robed senators of mighty woods” are clothed in their most elegant array.
~ Author Unknown




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Yes, you read right, if Photoshop is any indication as to how expensive this fun hobby can sometimes be, learning invaluable digital scrapbook techniques like this don’t come along every day.

Join the team at We Scrap for a thirty-day long class running from June 26th-July 26th, with photo instruction and handouts, chats and class assignments, plus the added bonus of being entered for a random draw of two fabulous gifts

(1) an assortment of scrapbooking products by American Crafts &
(2) a custom made mini album made by Jessica Acs. (you choose the type of album you want, and email your photos in). Visit Jessica Acs for more information.


Hope to see you there!


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For the past few week, I’ve been thinking up innovative ways to implement my digital scraps into my everyday household items.
I use a Wacom tablet right now, but furious clicking back and forth is wearing the bottom a bit thin.

Looking at the JCPenney mouse pad I received for opening a baby registry the idea came to me to use a layout and have it printed directly
on to the mouse pad, thanks to CafePress which offers even more exciting personalized gifts from aprons, to teddy bears, to coasters.

Below is the layout I plan on using for the mouse pad, featuring Hanna nestled on a bed of roses background at age three.





What do you think?
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Education does run in the family, and with graduation season upon, I’d like to take this opportunity to congratulate my baby brother who graduated magna cum laude from the University of Virginia this past Sunday.





Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn’t always have to be their top priority.
~William Arthur Ward

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
~Henry Ford

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
~Edmund Hillary

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
~Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles,” 1992

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
~Albert Einstein

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
~Doug Larson

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
~Ralph W. Sockman

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. ~Bishop Mandell Creighton

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
~Sydney J. Harris

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
~Andy McIntyre

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
~A.A. Milne

The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm.
~Fred Dehner

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
~Henry Ford

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
~Susan B. Anthony

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
~Roger Babson

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.
~Milton Berle

Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
~Arnold H. Glasow

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
~Francis Bacon, Essays, 1625

Education is the best provision for old age.
~Aristotle

Don’t waste time learning the “tricks of the trade.” Instead, learn the trade.
~Attributed to both James Charlton and H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
~Beverly Sills

Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps. ~David Lloyd George

What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
~Eleanor Powell

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.
~William Lyon Phelps

My father always told me, “Find a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.”
~Jim Fox

During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: “What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?” Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. “Absolutely,” the professor said. “In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello.” I’ve never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy.
~Joann C. Jones

You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. ~John Wooden

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
~Nelson Henderson







Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
~Newton D. Baker

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You’re on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.
~Dr. Seuss

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
~B.F. Skinner

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.
~Oscar Wilde, “The Critic as Artist,” 1890

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.
~Les Brown

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
~Attributed to Mark Twain

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
~Albert Einstein

If at first you don’t succeed, do it like your mother told you.
~Author Unknown

Of course there’s a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don’t take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.
~A. Lawrence Lowell

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.
~Robert Goheen, Time, 23 June 1961

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
~Anthony J. D’Angelo, The College Blue Book

The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.
~Carly Fiorina

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
~H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life’s Little Instruction Book

If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
~Vince Lombardi

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. ~Fred Allen

You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.
~John Updike

We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.
~Author Unknown

Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
~Art Linkletter

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
~Ralph Marston

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
~e.e. cummings, 1955

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
~Judy Garland

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
~e.e. cummings

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
~Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
~Euripides

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
~Dr. Seuss

The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money.
~Author Unknown

A professor is someone who talks in someone else’s sleep.
~W.H. Auden

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
~Russell Green





A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
~Henry Ford

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that “individuality” is the key to success.
~Robert Orben

Just about a month from now I’m set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.
~Richard Halliburton

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies “commencement exercises.” Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning.
~Orrin Hatch

Your families are extremely proud of you. You can’t imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing. This would be a most opportune time to ask for money.
~Gary Bolding

The tassel’s worth the hassle!
~Author Unknown

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
~Edward Koch

All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder.
~Author Unknown

Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you’ll make a difference.
~Arie Pencovici

At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards. My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros.
~Paul Freund

When you leave here, don’t forget why you came.
~Adlai Stevenson, to college graduates

Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.
~Erma Bombeck

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
~Tom Brokaw

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
~Aristotle

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. ~Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951


A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
~Theodore Roosevelt

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
~Benjamin Franklin

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
~Garry Trudeau

[I]t is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o’clock.
~Woody Allen, “My Speech to the Graduates,” Side Effects, 1980

People will frighten you about a graduation…. They use words you don’t hear often: “And we wish you Godspeed.” It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices. ~Bill Cosby

The future lies before you
Like a field of driven snow,
Be careful how you tread it,
For every step will show.
~Author Unknown

Your schooling may be over, but remember that your education still continues.
~Author Unknown

Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
~Wendy Wasserstein

I hope your dreams take you to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, and to the most special places your heart has ever known.
~Author Unknown

Hitch your wagon to a star.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
~Confucius

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!
~Louisa May Alcott

It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days.
~Isabel Waxman

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
~Harold Geneen

Put your future in good hands - your own.
~Author Unknown

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The History
Memorial (Decoration) Day is set aside to commemorate the sacrifices of the brave men and women in uniform, so to our brave service members past and present, especially my cousin Lt. Saibatu (Tutu) Mansaray bravely serving Iraq, thank you for your sacrifices and come home safely, soon.



They fell, but o’er their glorious grave
Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.
~Francis Marion Crawford

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
~ Taken from a headstone in Ireland

Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!
There’s none of these so lonely and poor of old,
But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.
~ Rupert Brooke

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

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

And I’m proud to be an American,
where at least I know I’m free.
And I won’t forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.
~ Lee Greenwood


They are dead; but they live in each Patriot’s breast,
And their names are engraven on honor’s bright crest.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth;
Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth…
~Thomas Moore

But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for,
Is their monument to-day, and for aye.
~ Thomas Dunn English

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 Drake

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

On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!
~ Thomas William Parsons

Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored.
~ Daniel Webster

With the tears a Land hath shed
Their graves should ever be green.
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
~ Henry Ward Beecher

Green sods are all their monuments; and yet it tells
A nobler history than pillared piles,
Or the eternal pyramids.
~ James Gates Percival

Is’t death to fall for Freedom’s right?
He’s dead alone who lacks her light!
~ Thomas Campbell

For love of country they accepted death…
~ James A. Garfield

How sleep the brave, who sink to rest,
By all their country’s wishes blest!
When Spring, with dewy fingers cold,
Returns to deck their hallow’d mould,
She there shall dress a sweeter sod
Than Fancy’s feet have ever trod.
By fairy hands their knell is rung,
There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray,
To bless the turf that wraps their clay;
And Freedom shall awhile repair,
To dwell, a weeping hermit, there.
~ William Collins

The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree.
~ Thomas Campbell

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

Better than honor and glory, and History’s iron pen,
Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.
~ Richard Watson Gilder

We who are left how shall we look again
Happily on the sun or feel the rain
Without remembering how they who went
Ungrudgingly and spent
Their lives for us loved, too, the sun and rain?
~ Wilfred Wilson Gibson

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

Who kept the faith and fought the fight;
The glory theirs, the duty ours.
~ Wallace Bruce

I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.
~ Benjamin Harrison

Cover them over with beautiful flowers,
Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours,
Lying so silent by night and by day
Sleeping the years of their manhood away.
Give them the meed they have won in the past;
Give them the honors their future forcast;
Give them the chaplets they won in the strife;
Give them the laurels they lost with their life.
~ Will Carleton

Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty!
~ Lucy Larcom

All we have of freedom, all we use or know -
This our fathers bought for us long and long ago.
~ Rudyard Kipling, The Old Issue, 1899

Our battle-fields, safe in the keeping
Of Nature’s kind, fostering care,
Are blooming, - our heroes are sleeping, -
And peace broods perennial there.
~ John H. Jewett

These heroes are dead. They died for liberty - they died for us. They are at rest. They sleep in the land they made free, under the flag they rendered stainless, under the solemn pines, the sad hemlocks, the tearful willows, and the embracing vines. They sleep beneath the shadows of the clouds, careless alike of sunshine or of storm, each in the windowless Place of Rest. Earth may run red with other wars - they are at peace. In the midst of battle, in the roar of conflict, they found the serenity of death. I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll

Their silent wounds have speech
More eloquent than men;
Their tones can deeper reach
Than human voice or pen.
~ William Woodman

Their own souls rose and cried
Alarum when they heard the sudden wail
Of stricken freedom and along the gale
Saw her eternal banner quivering wide.
~ John LeGay Brereton

The dead soldier’s silence sings our national anthem.
~ Aaron Kilbourn

Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead!
Laurels and roses on their graves to-day,
Lilies and laurels over them we lay,
And violets o’er each unforgotten head.
~ Richard Hovey

But fame is theirs - and future days
On pillar’d brass shall tell their praise;
Shall tell - when cold neglect is dead -
“These for their country fought and bled.”
~ Philip Freneau

Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.
~ John A. Logan

Your silent tents of green
We deck with fragrant flowers;
Yours has the suffering been,
The memory shall be ours.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The story of America’s quest for freedom is inscribed on her history in the blood of her patriots.
~ Randy Vader

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
~ William Penn

Ah! never shall the land forget
How gushed the life-blood of her brave -
~ William Cullen Bryant

“Dead upon the field of glory,”
Hero fit for song and story.
~ John Randolph Thompason

Knights of the spirit; warriors in the cause
Of justice absolute ‘twixt man and man.
~ Richard Watson Gilder

Fold him in his country’s stars.
Roll the drum and fire the volley!
What to him are all our wars,
What but death bemocking folly?
~ George Henry Boker

The Flag still floats unblotted with defeat!
But ah the blood that keeps its ripples red,
The starry lives that keep its field alight.
~ Rupert Hughes

The hero dead cannot expire:
The dead still play their part.
~ Charles Sangster

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

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
~ Maya Angelou

Spirit, that made those heroes dare
To die, and leave their children free,
Bid Time and Nature gently spare
The shaft we raise to them and thee.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Alas, how can we help but mourn
When hero bosoms yield their breath!
A century itself may bear
But once the flower of such a death.
~ S. Weir Mitchell

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

These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.
~ Schuyler Colfax

They saw their injured country’s woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.
~ Philip Freneau



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