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I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did. -Benjamin Harrison

Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic. -John A. Logan

Flowers are placed on the marker in remembrance.

As each veteran's name is read a 7 stroke roll is played.

At each Cemetery, a gun salute

At each cemetery, Taps

...Thanks and praise, for our days,
'Neath the sun, 'neath the stars, neath the sky;
As we go, this we know, God is nigh...

...While the light fades from sight,
And the stars gleaming rays softly send,
To thy hands we our souls, Lord, commend.

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