"Thank you"

Most of all, he liked the way the townspeople threw themselves into that

weekend, how much they cared, how strong their pride.

His father had told him of the ancient man who, when he himself was a little

boy, had walked creakily down Main Street wearing Confederate gray at an

earlier Memorial Day. One of the last living testaments to the Civil War.

Dead now, as they all were, Devin mused as he glanced over at the memorial in

the town's square. Dead, but not and never forgotten.

At least not in little towns such as these, which had once known the sound of mortar and

rifle fire and the terrible cries of the wounded.

The Heart of Devin MacKade 

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By Rennett Stowe from USA - United States Flag, CC BY 2.0, 

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20 Memorial Day Activities for the Whole Family

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Enchanted By Fairytale Castle As A Child Buys It 20 Years Later

"Where one goddess walks, another waits, and dreams are only memories yet to come."

Key of Knowledge

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Everyone remembers somewhere they hung out as a kid, whether a favourite park or a cafe where you'd all lounge about all day, pretending to be the cast of Friends.

Well, it seems that this doctor had a retreat of his own - as a schoolboy, he would play around this fairytale castle's six-mile walls and ultimately fell under its spell.

LAD BIBLE

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And he saw the woman standing on the parapet under a gleaming moon with her dark cloak billowing in the wind.

"It was you. All those years ago, I saw you."

"I saw you." She touched a hand, very gently, to his cheek. "A young, handsome boy, so troubled, so full of thoughts. I wondered when you'd remember me."

"Why did I see you? Why didn't they?"

"They didn't need to." 

Key of Knowledge

Gold and Silver- Images and illusions of the gold rush

There had been nights, many nights, when Sarah had cried herself to sleep from missing him. Then, as the years had passed, she’d had to take out the faded daguerreotype to remember his face. 

Lawless

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Through captivating and largely unedited images ranging from scenes of California’s rivers to the snow-capped peaks of Yukon, this exhibition follows the hopes, dreams and illusions of an entire generation of prospectors who took to the road in search of gold. It also tells the story of two major developments in the history of photography: single images on metal and multiple images on glass and paper.

NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA