HOLMES' 1884 MEMORIAL DAY SPEECH

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HOLMES' 1884 MEMORIAL DAY SPEECH
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. In Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched With Fire Not long ago I heard a young man ask why people still kept up Memorial Day, and it set me thinking of the answer. Not the answer that you and I should give to each other-not the expression of those feelings that, so long as you live, will make this day sacred to memories of love and grief and heroic youth--but an answer ...