Hail to the Veterans

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This nation will remain the land of the free

only so long as it is the home of the brave.

Elmer Davis

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace,

for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

General Douglas MacArthur

In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.

Jose Narosky

{In war, there are no unwounded hearts.}

Alone, alone, — all, all alone;
Alone on a wide, wide sea.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner, 1798

I can no other answer make, but thanks, and thanks.

William Shakespeare

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, Poems Before Congress, 1860

When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

George Canning

But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more

than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism

that our veterans have embodied in the past...

We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how

we are treating our veterans in the present.

Nick Lampson

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all.

By uniting we stand; by dividing we fall.

John Dickinson

HAPPY VETERANS DAY

and

may God bless us, one and all

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