Memorial Day is a time to remember the men and women who gave their lives for our country and our personal freedoms.
Please read The Bivouac of the Dead; By Theodore O’Hara – a poem inscribed on McClellan Gate (the original entrance to Arlington National Cemetery)
The Bivouac of the Dead
By Theodore O’Hara
The muffled drum’s sad roll has beat
The soldier’s last tattoo;
No more on life’s parade shall meet
That brave and fallen few.
On Fame’s eternal camping-ground
Their silent tents are spread,
And Glory guards, with solemn round,
The bivouac of the dead.
No rumor of the foe’s advance
Now swells upon the wind;
No troubled thought at midnight’s dance,
Of loved ones left behind;
No vision of the tyrant’s wrath,
The night-march done,
The weary watch, the camp-fire’s path,
That e’er shall be begun.