“On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.”

— Barack Obama

Campaign rally on Memorial Day, New Mexico (26 May 2008) http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/studentnews/05/26/transcript.tue/
2008

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“Any nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

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