Monday, May 11, 2009

Brushing off the barbeque, celebrating the unofficial start of summer, attending the Indianapolis 500, how do you celebrate Memorial Day? Read some quotes about heroes and don't forget what the day represents.

Memorial Day commemorates the men and women who have lost their lives in defense of our country. Celebrate this year with a donation to one of various charities helping our soldiers, buy a poppy at a local intersection from a Veteran of Foreign Wars member, or visit a memorial or cemetery. Check out these 10 quotes about heroes to get inspired to truly celebrate this Memorial Day.

1. ?And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can.? ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

2. ?Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave.? ~Mohammad Ali

3. ?That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end.? ~Lise Hand

4. ?Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

5. ?The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.? ~Thucydides

6. ?The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.? ~Arthur Ashe

7. "Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-long hurts and losses, death itself - for some great good, dimly seen but dearly held" ~Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

8. "A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer" ~Novalis

9. "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear" ~Mark Twain

10. "Nurture your minds with great thoughts, to believe in the heroic makes heroes" ~Benjamin Disraeli

There you have it... 10 quotes about heroes to inspire your patriotism and celebrations this Memorial Day. So even if it's just a somber toast at the barbeque, let's not forget our nation's heroes this year.

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