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In Remembrance for Those Who Have Died Serving Our Country: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. on the Observance of Memorial Day

30 May

Source: Photo by SGT Parker, US Army, The Old Guard. Arlington National Cemetery’s 2007 Flags In. Arlington National Cemetery Excertps from two Memorial Day addresses by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. In Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched With Fire (1884):…