Memorial Day

Marine Sgt. Eric Hargrave saluting the American flag as he cried for his cousin, Army Spc. James Edward Marshall, who died in Iraq. At the time Colin Powell was still the United States Secretary of State.

"When will it all end? The idiocy and the tension, the dying of young men, the destruction of homes, of cities, starvation, exhaustion, disease, children parentless and lost, cages full of shivering, staring prisoners, long lines of hopeless civilians plodding through mud, the endless pounding of the battle line. I can scarcely remember what it is like to be where explosions are not going off around me, some hostile, some friendly, all horrible; and exploding shell is a terrible sound. What keeps this war going?"

Donald Pearce

Canadian Infantry Junior Officer

World War II

They say we must remember in order to learn from history so as not to allow the repetition of past horrors. The lessons of the past are being ignored.