“Some things in life are too beautiful to be forgotten.  These things may be what men do in this world; they may even be their manner of passing from it.  For example, almost every country has instituted a memorial day to recall the supreme sacrifice its patriots have made in defense of country and civilization.  Because life was the most precious thing they could give, the living cannot forget their gift.  They themselves could not ask for any such memorial, nor could they institute it, that was left to their survivors.”  Archbishop Fulton Sheen (This is the Mass)