Hello, Berkeley County!
So what are you doing on this glorious Memorial Day Holiday? Are you sunbathing by the pool? Enjoying a picnic with your family and friends? Getting caught up or your chores? Enjoying a vacation at the beach? Or simply chilling on this hot, Monday afternoon?
We are all grateful for the time to relax. But we must never forget the true reason for this special holiday. Memorial Day is always the last Monday in May. It is a federal holiday to honor the U.S. war heroes. Although it was originally set up to honor soldiers from the Civil War, the holiday was expanded after WWI to include soldiers of all wars. We must always be proud Americans, and we must never forget the men and women of our military.
To commemorate Memorial Day, I would like to share five of my favorite quotes surrounding the day.
1. "The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example." Benjamin Disraeli
2. "Each man is a hero, and an oracle to somebody." Ralph Waldo Emerson.
3. "A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer." Novalis
4. "The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage." Thucydides
5. "Heroism is latent in every human soul--However humble or unknown, they (the Veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials--privation, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-long hurts and losses, death itself- for some great good, dimly seen, but dearly held." Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Thank you! Enjoy your day!
Dottie Pownall
