“We do not know one promise these men made, one pledge they gave, one word they spoke; but we do know they summed up and perfected, by one supreme act, the highest virtues of men and citizens. For love of country they accepted death, and thus resolved all doubts, and made immortal their patriotism and their virtue.”

~ James A. Garfield

May 30, 1868

Arlington National Cemetery

On Memorial Day time is taken to remember soldiers who gave their lives for their country. The day of remembrance began a few years after the end of the Civil War and at that time was known as Decoration Day, a time for family and loved ones to decorate the graves of fallen soldiers. The first observance was held at Arlington National Cemetery but soon the practice spread across the country.

Memorial Day was first designated in New York in 1873. In 1971 Congress established Memorial Day, and that it be commemorated on the last Monday of May. 

John 15:13 says, “Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.”

  Dick CLUBB, Mary Okeefe