Monday Musing: Memorial Day

U.S. Army photo by Spc. Kim Browne, 1st Cav. Div. Public Affairs

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

        

– Washington Irving

Monday Musing: Memorial Day

Arlington National Cemetery    Photo: Andrew Bossi, Wikimedia Commons

 

              With the tears a Land hath shed

           Their graves should ever be green.

 

                                                             ~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich