#memoria

I spent some time at White Memorial Medical Center as a senior medical student doing a rotation in surgery; however, I felt I wasn't getting enough time assisting. ↗

— Samuel Wilson

#center #doing #enough #felt #getting

On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag! ↗

— Alexander Henry

#country #flag #hope #language #republic

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#america #cannot #cured #nothing #right

While tributes to Americans who had lost their lives in battle had been held in a number of towns across the nation, one of the more well-known stories about the beginnings of Memorial Day is the story about General John Logan. ↗

— John Linder

#across #battle #been #beginnings #day

Their humble dwellings were of their own rearing; it was they themselves who had broken in their little fields; from time immemorial, far beyond the reach of history, had they possessed their mountain holdings. ↗

— Hugh Miller

#broken #dwellings #far #fields #had

La memoria del corazón elimina los malos recuerdos y magnifica los buenos, y que gracias a ese artilugio logramos sobrellevar el pasado. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#pasado #recuerdos #love

Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it. ↗

— Jack Bruce

#between #call #done #enough #felt

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. ↗

— James Bryce

#consists #country #flag #our #patriotism

Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience. ↗

— Henry Waxman

#conscience #memorials #modern #our #relics

You see, when a tragedy like this strikes, it is part of our nature to demand explanations - to try to impose some order on the chaos, and make sense out of that which seems senseless. ↗

— Barack Obama

#nature