REMEMBRANCE & HEALING
Honoring Our Fallen Heroes
For 137 years, Americans have gathered together on Memorial Day to honor our fallen heroes. We honor America's broken hearts: the hearts that were stilled in the cause of freedom, and the broken hearts of the loved ones they left behind. As we honor their lives and their sacrifice, they live on in our memories. And in the hope that they died for — that somewhere, someday, today's children, and the children of tomorrow, will live in peace.
Each year the National Memorial Day Concert provides the opportunity to bring our nation together in commemoration of the sacrifices our fallen soldiers and their loved ones. But the grief of those who have suffered losses continues long after our Concert is over.
This section of our website offers opportunities to share your own personal experiences and to take comfort in the words and assistance of others in the spirit of remembrance and healing that marks this and every year's Memorial Day.
To all who see this today who have served
"Yesterday, the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.
~John Adams
Letter to Mrs. Adams, July 3, 1776
"Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er,
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking,
Dream of battled fields no more.
Days of danger, nights of waking."
~Sir Walter Scott
