Quotes About Memorial

We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in.

Buildings had collapsed-once tall and mighty, now headstones for the thousands buried underneath.

Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.' So the name of that place is called Gilgal to this day" (Joshua 5:9 NASB).

It's nice to help remember somebody who really made a very positive difference in the world.

Many prominent families were affected by this disaster and would in time build the beautiful chapel of Notre-Dame-de-la-Consolation on the spot, as a memorial to their lost loved ones.

There wasn't an anhydrous lacrimal gland in the house, writes the author in all seriousness describing a memorial service for a medical school's cadavers.

We sat outside the studio at night, among a few candles, and closed our eyes for a minute. After that, we jammed straight from our hearts. We didn't play for ourselves, but for the ones no longer with us in flesh, but always with us in spirit. God bless. Until we meet again. Soul fly... fly free

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.

It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57 000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.

When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.

WWII plaque that resides on an island in the pacific: "When you go home Tell them of us, and say For your tomorrow, We gave our today.

A great day in the annals of two ancient nations, Egypt and Israel, whose sons met in battle five times, fighting and falling…. It is thanks to our fallen heroes that we could have reached this day.

la guerra convirtió la tierra en un cementerio.

I knew that I shouldn't have, but I did it all the same; and there you have my epitaph, or one of them, because my grave is going to require a monument inscribed on all four sides with rueful mottoes, in small characters, set close together.

Why waste a life in search of an epitaph?

Cedric Diggory

Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth.

Every year, she cleaned the graves of her siblings; her

Make your monuments [worthy] of the god, This keeps alive their maker's name,..

See, their words endure in books, Open, read them, copy their knowledge, He who is taught becomes skilled. Don't be evil, kindness is good, Make your memorial last through love of you. Increase the [people], befriend the town,..

The day this person left our organization is considered an annual holiday!" [quote from author's and his colleague's national study with over 400 participants in the research]

Tig had been thinking about the aftermath of the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia, memorialized in Black Hawk Down, particularly the part when locals had dragged the bodies of American soldiers through the streets.

Jay saw no sign of the more than twenty-seven hundred people22 who'd arrived at the Twin Towers that morning as workers, visitors, or emergency responders, or as airplane passengers and crew, but who'd soon be counted among the departed.