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“Three times a year, theres Strategicon convention, and I go for the board games. It happens Presidents Day, Labor Day, and Memorial Day weekends. You go and take a look at the new board games and meet a couple of board game designers, and you can check out games you dont own from the library and then return them.”

“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”

“137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.”

“I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.”

“I see in the FBI 302, which was put out on Memorial Day weekend in print about this big where you needed to use a magnifying glass to read it, but I read it twice, I saw something that really concerned me.It said Hillary Clinton can't remember her exit interview from the CIA because she had no memory for a period of time after she had a concussion. She was secretary of state when she had no memory. Now there's something really seriously wrong with it.”

“My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

“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.”

“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”

“The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.”

“On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.”

“The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.”

“But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.”

“I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.”

“The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.”

“And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.”

“Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours.”

“The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.”

“Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.”

“With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.”

“Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.”

“On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!”

“We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”