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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. : Memorial Day, 1884

May 24, 2015 by PaulM Posted in History, Lowell Leave a Comment

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. “In Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched With Fire” [An address delivered for Memorial Day, May 30, 1884, at Keene, NH, before John Sedgwick Post No. 4, Grand Army of the Republic.] Not long ago I heard a young man ask why people still kept up…

Memorial Day Address: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

May 30, 2011 by PaulM Posted in Culture, History, Lowell Leave a Comment

Here’s the text of the famous 1884 Memorial Day speech by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., the Boston-born Civil War veteran who served on the US Supreme Court. His parents were the doctor-poet Oliver Wendell Holmes and abolitionist Amelia Lee Jackson. He enlisted in the army in his senior year at Harvard…