Memorial Day Essays, Speeches, Poems, Prayers and Song Lyrics

"... there are some who keep up a tradition of pride in service to the United States of America and remember all those who had fallen .... Let none of us ever forget what Memorial Day really is." --Kathlena Peebles, May 1996

| Speeches / Essays | | Poetry / Prayers/ Lyrics |

Address of Senator Foraker at Arlington, Memorial Day, May 30, 1905.
[memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/murray:@field(FLD001+91898248+):@@@$REF$]
CNN - Memorial Day Articles - 25 May 1998
[www.cnn.com/US/9805/25/memorial.day.wrap/]
General Logan's General Order 11
[www.usmemorialday.org/order11.html]
Growing up in the wake of World War II
Childhood recollection by Professor Benoit Roisin [©, 2000]
[www.usmemorialday.org/roisin.htm]
How to Observe Memorial Day
Includes an elegantly written email by Sylvia Mohr
[www.usmemorialday.org/observe.htm]
Human Life International: On Memorial Day, We Should Honor Our Fallen Heroes and What They Died For...
PR Newswire, 26 May 2000
[www.usmemorialday.org/prnewswire.htm]
In Memorium (PDF file)
© 2006 Lilian Leader
[www.usmemorialday.org/InMemorium.pdf]
May 30 is a has-been holiday with meaning
A 1997 OakRidger column by Dorothy Senn
[www.oakridger.com/stories/052997/senn.html]
Memorial Day 1999
Suggested Memorial Day speech from US Army
[www.usmemorialday.org/Speeches/Other/army1999.htm]
Memorial Day Address
By the American Legion
[www.legion.org/index.php?section=pub_relations&subsection=pr_speeches&content=pr_speech_memorial]
Memorial Day and 135 Years of Memory
PR Newswire, 25 May 2000
[www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m4PRN/2000_May_25/62445909/print.jhtml]
Memorial Day, A Reflection on Honor, Sacrifice, and Duty (PDF file)
© 2007 Kelvin Drawdy
[www.usmemorialday.org/memorialday4.pdf]
Memorial Day, Dorset, Vermont
Commonweal, 18 May 2001
[www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1252/10_128/75445701/print.jhtml]
Memorial Day Essay
© 2001 Ali M., 3rd Grader, Academy Elementary School, Madison, Connecticut.
[www.usmemorialday.org/alim.htm]
Memorial Day Essay
By Kathlena Peebles © 1996 - a must read
[www.usmemorialday.org/essay.html]
Memorial Day in 2005 landing on the May 30th of 2005
article which I submitted on a WOWZONE.com open forum website by Phoebe Moses © 2005
[www.usmemorialday.org/wow2005.htm]
Memorial Day Service, 1995
Robinson's Run Cemetery, McDonald, Pennsylvania 28 May 1995
by Ira Joe Davis, Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army
[www.usmemorialday.org/Speeches/Other/davis1995.htm]
Memorial Day Speech 1997
By Deborah Y. Parker Public Affairs Office, 279th Base Support Battalion, Unit 27535, Bamberg, Germany
[www.usmemorialday.org/Speeches/Other/parker1997.htm]
Memorial Day Speech 2004
By By Peter W. Schramm, for the Memorial Day services for the city of Ashland, Ohio at the Ashland Cemetery on May 31, 2004
[www.ashbrook.org/publicat/dialogue/schramm5.html]
Memorial Day Speech 2006
By Gene Bruce, Colonel, U.S. Army (retired)
May 29, 2006
Dundee, Michigan
[www.usmemorialday.org/Speeches/Other/memday2006.htm]
A Message From The Pastor
By Rev. J. Thomas Shelley, STS, Pastor © 1999
[www.usmemorialday.org/Speeches/Other/shelley1999.htm]
The Oath of the Soldier -A Memorial Day Observance Speech
By Johnny Q. Gogue III
[www.usmemorialday.org/Speeches/Other/oath.htm]
Observations on Memorial Day, 1996
By Jesse Brown, Secretary of Veterans Affairs
[www.usmemorialday.org/Speeches/Other/memday1996.htm]
Oliver Wendell Holmes' Famous 1884 Memorial Day Speech
[www.people.virginia.edu/~mmd5f/memintro.htm]
President's Remarks
[www.usmemorialday.org/remarks.html]
A Tribute To Memorial Day 2004
Delivered by Joseph Raisner, Camp Hill High School Senior 2004
[www.usmemorialday.org/Speeches/Other/tribute2004.htm]
VFW Memorial Day 2004 Speech
[www.vfw.org/index.cfm?fa=news.levelc&cid=1896&tok=1]
VFW Pays Tribute...Memorial Day, May 27, 2002
The meaning of Memorial Day
[www.usmemorialday.org/Speeches/Other/vfw2002.htm]
With My Family on Memorial Day
By Wes Hempel, Northridge Review, Vol. 4.1 [1986]
[www.csun.edu/~hceng029/thebest/hempelwithmyfamily.htm]

A Daughters Tribute to her POW Dad
[nationalalliance.org/korea/justus.htm]
The Bivouac Of The Dead.
By Theodore O'Hara, 1847
[www.usmemorialday.org/poetry/ohara.html]
The Blue and The Gray
By Unknown Author
[www.usmemorialday.org/poetry/ohara.html]
The Blue and The Gray
By Francis Miles Finch
[www.pa-roots.org/~memorialday/bg1.html]
County Fair
Author Unknown
[www.usmemorialday.org/poetry/cfair.html]
Dirge For Two Veterans
By Walt Whitman
[www.usmemorialday.org/poetry/dirge.htm]
Freedom
By Roger W Hancock
© 2002 Roger W Hancock (www.PoetPatriot.com)
[www.mountaindragon.com/poetry/freedom.htm]
Freedom's Colors
By Roger W Hancock
© 2002 Roger W Hancock (www.PoetPatriot.com)
[www.mountaindragon.com/poetry/freedomscolors.htm]
God Bless Our Military Mothers
Poems dedicated to the military mothers
© 2004 Roger J. Robicheau (Sp 5, US Army), The Poetic Plumber
[ http://sites.google.com/site/veteranpoetroger/home/our-wonderful-military-mothers ]
The Heroes
By Roger W Hancock
© 2002 Roger W Hancock (www.PoetPatriot.com)
[www.mountaindragon.com/poetry/theheroes.htm]
Hero's Price
By Roger W Hancock
© 2002 Roger W Hancock (www.PoetPatriot.com)
[www.mountaindragon.com/poetry/herosprice.htm]
Heroes Unaware
By Mark A. Wright, HMC(SS)
[www.usmemorialday.org/poetry/unaware.htm]
How We Recall
© 2004 Roger J. Robicheau (Sp 5, US Army), The Poetic Plumber
[www.usmemorialday.org/poetry/howrecall.htm]
I Am A Navy Corpsman
By Mark A. Wright, HMC(SS)
[www.usmemorialday.org/poetry/navycorpsman.htm]
In Flanders Fields
The Poem from WWI
[www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/McCrae.html]
I Stand Before You
© 2001 Roger J. Robicheau (Sp 5, US Army), The Poetic Plumber
[www.usmemorialday.org/poetry/istand.html]
Liberty Be
By Roger W Hancock
© 2002 Roger W Hancock (www.PoetPatriot.com)
[www.mountaindragon.com/poetry/libertybe.htm]
Lucky
From "Reveille to Taps...The Culture of an Army Child and Family"
by Kimberly Anne Davis, 2 November 1997
[www.usmemorialday.org/poetry/davis.html]
Memorial Day
© 2001 Anna, 3rd Grader, Academy Elementary School, Madison, Connecticut.
[www.usmemorialday.org/poetry/anna.htm]
Memorial Day
By Michelle Keim © 2000, Commander of Royersford VFW Post 6341 in PA.
[www.usmemorialday.org/poetry/memday.htm]
Memorial Day
By Eula Gladys Lincoln
[pa-roots.org/~memorialday/mday.html]
Memorial Day
© 2001 Luke, 3rd Grader, Academy Elementary School, Madison, Connecticut.
[www.usmemorialday.org/poetry/luke.htm]
Memorial Day
© 2001 Tim F., 3rd Grader, Academy Elementary School, Madison, Connecticut.
[www.usmemorialday.org/poetry/timf.htm]
Memorial Day Poems
At Alphabet-Soup
[www.alphabet-soup.net/mem/memorialpoem.html]
A Memorial Day Prayer
By Rev. Dick Kozelka (ret.)
[www.usmemorialday.org/prayer.html]
The Mother of a Soldier
By Folger McKinsey
[www.usmemorialday.org/poetry/mother.htm]
Not Free
By Roger W Hancock
© 2002 Roger W Hancock (www.PoetPatriot.com)
[www.mountaindragon.com/poetry/notfree2.htm]
Our Flag
By Roger W Hancock
© 2002 Roger W Hancock (www.PoetPatriot.com)
[www.mountaindragon.com/poetry/ourflag.htm]
Our Pride, Our Flag
By Roger W Hancock
© 2002 Roger W Hancock (www.PoetPatriot.com)
[www.mountaindragon.com/poetry/ourpride.htm]
The Poetry of Arlington National Cemetery
Includes several Memorial Day specific poems
[www.arlingtoncemetery.net/poetry.htm]
The Price
By Roger W Hancock
© 2002 Roger W Hancock (www.PoetPatriot.com)
[www.mountaindragon.com/poetry/theprice.htm]
Remembering...
© 2001 Jessica F., 3rd Grader, Academy Elementary School, Madison, Connecticut
[www.usmemorialday.org/poetry/remembering.htm]
The Sentinel At the Gates
Alumni et Patriae Asto C John Puzzo 2002
[www.usmemorialday.org/poetry/sentinel.htm]
A Soldier
Written in a Japanese POW camp by a Bataan Death March survivor at great peril to his life
[www.usmemorialday.org/poetry/soldier.html]
Soldier Buried on the Battlefield
Quoted by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in his 1895 Memorial Day speech at Harvard
[www.people.Virginia.EDU/~mmd5f/poem25.html#soldier]
Tall And Free
By Roger W Hancock
© 2002 Roger W Hancock (www.PoetPatriot.com)
[www.mountaindragon.com/poetry/tallandfree.htm]
Taps: full text
[www.usmemorialday.org/taps.html]
Those Now Gone (Memorial Day)
By Roger W Hancock
© 2002 Roger W Hancock (www.PoetPatriot.com)
[www.mountaindragon.com/poetry/nowgone.htm]
We buried another veteran today
© Major Van E. Harl, USAF Ret.
Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi, 28 November 2001
[www.mountaindragon.com/poetry/weburied.html]
(We Need to Be) The RE-United States
© 2001, Maria Rose/Mada Publishing
[www.mountaindragon.com/poetry/weneed2b.htm]
What Heroes Gave
© 2004 Roger J. Robicheau (Sp 5, US Army), The Poetic Plumber
[www.usmemorialday.org/poetry/istand.html]
Yesterday we were parents
A USS Cole poem
By Michelle Keim © 2000, Commander of Royersford VFW Post 6341 in PA.
[www.usmemorialday.org/poetry/usscole.htm]