Memorial Day -"Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends" - John 15:13

"...that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God, ... and that government of the people by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth." --Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln's Gettysburg address

Memorial Day offers an intertwining religious message for all