(HOME) Happy Memorial Day !!! Thanks All Veterans Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice, We Honor You !!!

When is Memorial Day? Memorial Day in 2013 is on Monday, the 27th of May; May 27, 2013. For the United States the holiday is always the last Monday in May.
In the United States, Memorial Day, which is observed on the last Monday of May, commemorates the men and women who died while in the military service. In observance of the holiday, many people visit cemeteries and memorials, and volunteers often place American flags on each grave site at national cemeteries. A national moment of remembrance takes place at 3:00 p.m. local time...
The history of Memorial Day will depend on who you ask, several different locations claim to be the birthblace of the holiday, Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation's service and there are many stories as to its actual beginnings, with over two dozen cities and towns laying claim to being the birthplace of Memorial Day.
The firsrt National Memorial Day (called Decoration Day at that time) was officially proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, in his General Order No. 11, and was first observed on 30 May 1868, when flowers were placed on the graves of both Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery.

This is a "Memorial Day" commemoration page honor our fallen U.S. military veterans although many of the photographs, the prayer, and poem and some of the clipart could also be also used for Memorial Day and some even for other United States of America patriotic holidays. Many people get Veterans Day and Memorial Day confused and have questions like: What is the difference between Veterans Day and Memorial Day? or When is Memorial Day 2013 and on what day of week will Memorial Day be celebrated. For correct official answers to any questions you have regarding the Memorial Day holiday visit the United States Department of Veterans Affairs Website– Memorial Day Official Government Information Page -and- Memorial Day History

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A Memorial Day or Memorial Day Prayer for Our Troops:

'Please Bless the souls of all who have made the ultimate sacrifice for us to blaze the path and secure our lives and freedoms and watch over all our troops now who are in harms way. Lord, hold our troops past and present in your loving hands. Protect them as they protect us Bless them and their families for sacrifice they have made and the selfless acts they perform for us in our time of need. Amen'

A Memorial Day Prayer:

'Please Bless the souls of all who have come before us to blaze our countries path and secure our safety, lives and American freedoms and watch over and protect all our troops, service people and U.S. citizens who are now in harms way for our cause and beliefs.
We are truly thankful for those who have placed themselves at risk for us and especially those who paid the ultimate price of their lives, may they be in your grace and rest in peace.
Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they protect us Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in our time of need. Amen.'

Why do people wear red poppies on Memorial Day?

The wearing of poppies in honor of America's war dead is traditionally done on Memorial Day, not Veterans Day. The practice of wearing of poppies takes its origin from the poem In Flanders Fields, a war veterans poem written in 1915 by John McCrae:

A poem for fallen war veterans:
In Flanders Fields, by John McCrae

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly.
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

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Memorial Day Poem
by THEODORE O'HARA:

"BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD"
The muffled drum's sad roll has beat
The soldier's last tattoo;
No more on life's parade shall meet
That brave and fallen few.
On Fame's eternal camping-ground
Their silent tents are spread,
And Glory guards, with solemn round,
The bivouac of the dead.

No rumor of the foe's advance
Now swells upon the wind;
Nor troubled thought at midnight haunts
Of loved ones left behind;
No vision of the morrow's strife
The warrior's dream alarms;
No braying horn nor screaming fife
At dawn shall call to arms.

Their shriveled swords are red with rust,
Their plumed heads are bowed,
Their haughty banner, trailed in dust,
Is now their martial shroud.
And plenteous funeral tears have washed
The red stains from each brow,
And the proud forms, by battle gashed
Are free from anguish now.

The neighing troop, the flashing blade,
The bugle's stirring blast,
The charge, the dreadful cannonade,
The din and shout, are past;
Nor war's wild note nor glory's peal
Shall thrill with fierce delight
Those breasts that nevermore may feel
The rapture of the fight.

Like the fierce northern hurricane
That sweeps the great plateau,
Flushed with the triumph yet to gain,
Came down the serried foe,
Who heard the thunder of the fray
Break o'er the field beneath,
Knew well the watchword of that day
Was "Victory or death!"

Long had the doubtful conflict raged
O'er all that stricken plain,
For never fiercer fight had waged
The vengeful blood of Spain;
And still the storm of battle blew,
Still swelled the gory tide;
Not long, our stout old chieftain knew,
Such odds his strength could bide.
continued...

Twas in that hour his stern command
Called to a martyr's grave
The flower of his beloved land,
The nation's flag to save.
By rivers of their father's gore
His first-born laurels grew,
And well he deemed the sons would pour
Their lives for glory too.

For many a mother's breath has swept
O'er Angostura's plain --
And long the pitying sky has wept
Above its moldered slain.
The raven's scream, or eagle's flight,
Or shepherd's pensive lay,
Alone awakes each sullen height
That frowned o'er that dread fray.

Sons of the Dark and Bloody Ground
Ye must not slumber there,
Where stranger steps and tongues resound
Along the heedless air.
Your own proud land's heroic soil
Shall be your fitter grave;
She claims from war his richest spoil --
The ashes of her brave.

Thus 'neath their parent turf they rest,
Far from the gory field,
Borne to a Spartan mother's breast
On many a bloody shield;
The sunshine of their native sky
Smiles sadly on them here,
And kindred eyes and hearts watch by
The heroes sepulcher.

Rest on embalmed and sainted dead!
Dear as the blood ye gave;
No impious footstep shall here tread
The herbage of your grave;
Nor shall your glory be forgot
While fame her records keeps,
Or Honor points the hallowed spot
Where Valor proudly sleeps.

Yon marble minstrel's voiceless stone
In deathless song shall tell,
When many a vanquished ago has flown,
The story how ye fell;
Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter's blight,
Nor Time's remorseless doom,
Shall dim one ray of glory's light
That gilds your deathless tomb.

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