Memorial Day 2025

I saw this poem on a small Memorial Day display in an office recently, and I looked it up when I got home. The poet was born in 1889 and died in 1952, but this poem is very appropriate today, when people just think of shopping and barbeques.

"Memorial Day, by Annette Wynne:

Is it enough to think to-day
Of all our brave, then put away
The thought until a year has sped?
Is this full honor for our dead?

Is it enough to sing a song
And deck a grave; and all year long
Forget the brave who died that we
Might keep our great land proud and free?

Full service needs a greater toll—
That we who live give heart and soul
To keep the land they died to save,
And be ourselves, in turn, the brave!