This year whether your Memorial Day plans take you to the beaches, parties or an all-you-can-eat cookout remember to thank the men and women that serve our country.  Thank you!

As part of the Memorial Day Celebration, enjoy these quotes. And other Random thoughts:

• I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free. And I won’t forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.   -Lee Greenwood
• It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. — General George Patton
• Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. – John F. Kennedy
• The greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom to their children. -William Havard
• For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. -William Penn
• The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree. – Thomas Campbell           
• The costs this Memorial day; the price of hotdogs 2.30, the price of gas 4.00 /gal , the price of freedom…priceless.  Thank you to all that serve.
• Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. -Senator Barry Goldwater
• When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say,  For Their Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today - The Kohima Epitaph
• On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation! -Thomas William Parsons
• The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men. -Minot J. Savage
• We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them. -Francis A. Walker
• The dead soldier’s silence sings our national anthem. -Rev. Aaron Kilbourn
• The cost of liberty is less than the cost of repression. -Web Dubois
•  With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• They fell, but o’er their glorious grave , Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save. – Francis Marion Crawford
•  The purpose of all war is ultimately peace. -Saint Augustine
•  As I approach the gates of heaven; St. Peter I will tell; One more soldier reporting sir; I’ve served my time in hell. -Mark Anthony Gresswell
• Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace. -Martin Luther
• Memorial Day afternoon and the aroma from the barbeque smoke & freshly mowed lawn is stronger than all of nature’s air fresheners.  

What are some of your favorite Memorial Day memories?

Another Great Cartoon by Bill Lamere

What are some of your favorite Memorial Day Quotes?