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HEARTS TOUCHED WITH FIRE; MEMORIAL DAY HAS PROFOUND MEANING EVEN FOR THOSE UNTOUCHED BY WAR.(Editorial)(Editorial)

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From: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
Date: 20020527
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. set out the case why Memorial Day should be celebrated on May 30, 1884 at Keene, N.H. We reprint excerpts of it here to remember, as he put it, "In Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched With Fire":

Not long ago I heard a young man ask why people still kept up Memorial Day, and it set me thinking of the answer. Not the answer that you and I should give to each other - not the expression of those feelings that, so long as you live, will make this day sacred to memories of love and grief and heroic youth - but an answer which should command the assent of ...

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