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crutchie-with-a-y · 4 years

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Kids will always be kids

So this takes place during the Flu Pandemic in 1918, so I moved the time period up a bit. Hope you enjoy! <3

Medda Larkin had never been one for despair, but when the Spanish Flu began to sweep through New York in 1918, her positivity was definitely dulled. The news of the crammed hospitals and painful deaths occupied every waking moment of daily life, and as she made her rounds at the theatre, the scope terrifying situation continued to invade her mind. The stairs up to the catwalk creaked underneath her, reminding her of the creak of beds beneath miserably ill New Yorkers. She slid her finger along the railing, accumulating a fair amount of gray dust as she did, making her think of the textbooks gathering dust in the empty school houses of the city. Pulling her self over the last step and onto the catwalk, a face mask one of her stage hands had evidently forgotten caught her eye, eerily swinging back and forth from where it hung on the metal railing. Stepping closer to it, Medda noticed dark text on it, and then squinting in the dim light, she realized it was made of newspaper. Which meant it was one of the newsies’ masks. Covering her hand with part of her skirt and gently picking it up, Medda felt tears rising in her eyes. The pandemic had been hard for everyone, but especially the newsies. Having little to their names, it was hard to stay safe and clean, and they couldn’t afford to stay back at the lodging house and not work. Jack had definitely impressed everyone with the calmness and immediacy that he lead with. He had instructed the newsies to make masks out of whatever they could, hats, scraps of torn shirts, anything they could spare. But as it got colder, the newsies needed those hats and scraps to keep warm. Sarah had been knitting scarves to cover faces as fast as she could, even teaching a few newsies how to knit to try and lighten the work load, and Jack at started a small fund that everyone chipped in for to help buy more yarn, but they weren’t even half way done. Katherine had tried desperately to get the newsies money, supplies, and masks, but her father was keeping her at home and kept a watchful eye on her, so she had to sneak out of his sight occasionally to try and drop things out the window, praying that one of the newsies would be nearby at that moment. Medda herself had sewed some masks, and donated as many old costumes as she could afford. Despite all those efforts, one newsie did get sick, poor little Henry. Thankfully, Jack had previously moved newsies out of one room on the first floor for anyone who got sick to stay in, and that had prevented anyone else from getting ill. Henry was reportedly getting better, but he was still stuck in bed, with only himself for company.

“Oh, God.” Medda whispered, looking up from the mask and scrunching her eyes closed as two silent tears slid down her face. Why, why did this have to happen? It was so hard and exhausting, and everyone in the city was about to collapse from stress. Medda stood there for a few moments, quietly crying as she clutched the forgotten mask in one hand and braced herself on the railing with the other, her chin tucked into her chest and her eyes still scrunched up.

“MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDAAAAAAAAAAAAA!” A muffled shout startled her and she took an abrupt step back in surprise.

“Where is she?” Another voice asked, followed by several sets of footsteps.

“The shows in a hour, she wouldn’t be out anywhere’s.” A third voice commented. It was then that Medda realized that they were talking about her and she hadn’t actually spoken.

“I’m up on the catwalk!” She shouted down, and aggressively wiped her eyes as her feet felt the vibration of feet pounding up the stairs.

“On my way’s.” Three slender figures appeared at the top of the stairs, pushing and shoving each other as they reached the top step.

“I WON! HA!” One figure shouted, hopping onto the catwalk and taking their cap off to wave it in the air.

“No you did n-AHHHH,” A second figure started, before tripping on a step and coming crashing down.

“SECOND! MWAHAHHAH!” A third figure hopped over the fallen one and high-fived the one with their hat in the air.

“That isn’t fair! Romeo cheated!” The fallen figure pushed themselves up and jogged up to their crew, and they all headed towards Medda. My kids, she thought as they continued to squabble. When the faces became recognizable, Smalls, Romeo, and Elmer all stopped yelling at each other and starting yelling greetings to her, their eyes bright over their masks while their hands waved vigorously. Kids, Medda thought to herself.

“Hi, Ms. Medda!” Smalls bounced up and down on her toes.

“How are you this evening!” Romeo tipped his hat and accidentally elbowed Smalls, who slugged him in the arm.

“There ain’t much light, but that’s a lovely dress, Ms. Medda,” Elmer grinned, pushing up the sides of his mask while his friends swatted at each other.

Kids. They were still kids. Through out all of this, the fear, the anxiety, the unrest, kids would still always be kids.

The tears Medda had wiped away resurfaced; she couldn’t help it. Smalls and Romeo both whipped their heads up when they heard her sniff.

“What’s wrong, Ms. Medda?” Romeo said, his eyes wide with concern.

“Elmer, what did you say?” Smalls turned to glare at him.

“I d-don’t know-”

“It’s nothing, It’s nothing,” Medda shook her head and rested it in her hands. “I just...I just love you kids so much.”

“We love you too, Ms. Medda!” The young newsies said in unison.

It’ll be okay, Medda thought as the kids chattered about how excited they were about upcoming benefit show, the kids always found away to make everything seem okay.

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somedayonbroadway · 4 years

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Could you give your thoughts on the Rise of the Guardians AU?

Okay! This one’s super fun!

Rise of The Guardians AU

Characters

Racetrack Higgins — Jack Frost (The Guardian of Fun)

Jack Kelly — Santa Claus (The Guardian of Wonder)

Katherine Plumber — The Tooth Fairy (The Guardian of Memories)

Spot Conlon — The Easter Bunny (The Guardian of Hope)

Crutchie Morris — The Sandman (The Guardian of Dreams)

Warden Snyder — The Boogeyman (The Essence of Fear)

Les Jacobs — Jamie Bennett

Elmer — Sophie Bennett

Story

Frost wakes up after being magically pulled from a frozen pond, carrying no memory as to how he’d ended up there or any life before that. The moon names him Frost. Frost is an immortalized sixteen year old.

Frost is thrilled at first, seeing that he has a sort of magic that he can control through a hook shaped stick he finds beside the frozen pond. But he quickly discovers that he is invisible to the word and people can walk straight through him, leaving him completely alone in the world.

Three hundred years later in the middle of spring, Santa Claus, more affectionately known to his friends and elves as Jack Kelly, his birth name, is making toys and preparing for next Christmas. Yes he has sleeve tattoos, yes he’s only actually twenty six (though technically he’s been alive for hundreds of years) and yes he’s still a big goofball who happens to be a badass.

His elves rush in and scream that something’s wrong. When Jack rushes out, he finds his map being engulfed in black dust. He believes it to be a warning from the man in the moon who chose him to be a guardian. He believes that it means The Boogeyman is coming back.

He summons the rest of the guardians.

Katherine, known to the world as the tooth fairy, arrives first. She looks just like a regular woman. She where’s brightly colored clothes and has wings though and she wears a colorful mask. Her helpers look like the little fairies in the movie though, including Smalls, who is Baby Tooth. Katherine and Jack have a bit of a history. She’s twenty seven.

Then comes Crutchie, the sandman. He’s missing a leg and is mute, but can communicate through pictures of sand that appear above his head. Jack and Crutchie are very close. Crutchie loves to hang around the North Pole in between sending dreams to the kids of the world. He can get around by floating on magic sand, but sometimes he makes himself a crutch to get around. He’s nineteen.

Lastly, Spot. Jack calls him that because of the way he paints his eggs. Eventually, it just stuck. He’s not really a bunny, but he’s still a magical being who uses bunnies to help him with his holiday. He is a tough guy. Him and Jack are often competing to see who’s the tougher of them. He uses a boomerang as a weapon and is very fast. He looks very intimidating at first, but once someone becomes his friend he’s fiercely protective of them. He’s twenty six.

Anyways, the moon tells them once they’re all there that there is going to be a new guardian.

Frost.

The guardians are a bit surprised at this as Frost is very immature and has pulled pranks on every one of them.

But Jack tells them that’s what the moon’s saying, so it’s what has to happen.

Meanwhile, Frost, or Race as he’s known by Jack and some other magical beings who caught him many times trying to mess with his elves but was too quick for him to catch, is messing around with some kids, overall spreading joy and happiness, even though the kids still don’t believe in him.

He actually ends up with a big group of kids. Specifically one Les Jacobs and his friends. Les is nine, and still believes in Santa and all of them despite his friends not.

Race starts a snowball fight between Les and his friends, getting them to laugh and smile for a good while before Les loses a tooth and goes to put it under his pillow for the tooth fairy.

Race is disappointed that people still don’t believe in him, but he watches over the Jacobs house until the sandman starts sending out his dreams.

He follows one until he ends up in an alley where he’s cornered by Spot who mentions to him that he’s still made at Race for his last prank. Race tries to laugh it off and go, but he’s stuffed into Santa’s bag and taken against his will.

When he’s released, he finds he’s in Jack’s office and the guardians are all around him, trying to officially swear him in as a guardian.

Race tries to run, but Jack grabs him and brings him back. Race says he doesn’t want to be a guardian because he just likes to have fun and he doesn’t want to be held up with responsibilities.

Jack tried to explain to him that they were all chosen for a reason. He tells Race a little about his past. How he was just a boy who used to steal and gather money for the kids in his village and give them presents to put a smile on their face. How he was poor and had nothing but made sure the other kids always had something. He says that’s why he was chosen.

Before Race can ask any questions, the tooth fairies helpers send out a signal for help. So Jack gets everyone on his sleigh to take them there.

Spot hates riding in Jack’s sleigh as he’s terrified of heights and would much rather travel by rabbit tunnel. But Jack doesn’t give him a choice and Race teases him about it the whole time by jumping off and around the sleigh, joking that Spot cared when he thought Race had fallen from the sleigh.

When they arrive at “Tooth Palace” the guardians find that the place has been destroyed. They’re attacked by a swarm of nightmares who are kidnapping all the fairies and taking every single tooth that had been stored for safekeeping. While they’re being attacked, Race manages to catch one of the nightmares and save a single fairy.

Smalls.

The boogeyman, dubbed The Spider by Jack, confronts them then and there, believing Race to be a neutral party since no kids believe in him. He then tells the official guardians that he plans to destroy children’s belief in all of them, thereby making them disappear completely. Katherine begins to feel a bit weak. The boogeyman explains that it’s because children were waking up on one side of the world and realizing that no fairy had replaced their tooth with any kind of gift that night. Jack has to catch her as her wings give out a little bit.

Spider warns Race against staying with them because they obviously lied to him about what it really means to be a guardian, that being, if kids stop believing in them, they aren’t just invisible, they cease to exist. This prompts Spot to throw a boomerang at him, going to attack him as Jack grabs a couple of knives and goes at him too.

But Spider gets away.

Katherine is heartbroken. She goes a little frantic trying to find any one of her fairies that are left. Race hands her Smalls and Katherine calms, but only slightly. She then explains to Race that the teeth they kept weren’t just teeth. They held memories. Whenever someone needed a reminder of something, the fairies would help them remember. She explains that she was just a normal girl in her past life. She came from a wealthy family but was surrounded by others who had nothing, so her goal was to get them to smile, always. She tells them that when they were in the midst of a good moment, to close their eyes and hold onto it for as long as they could and when they opened their eyes, there would be a gift waiting there for them.

She explains to Race that she even had his memories from his past life which makes Race pause because he believed he didn’t have a past life. She assures him he did and Race makes it his mission to find his lost tooth to regain his memories.

Though the group knows danger is coming, Race can’t help but notice they all seem to be hopeful still, making jokes and messing with each other like normal as they try to come up with a plan to save themselves and protect the children.

Katherine states that there’s still one side of the world that hasn’t woken up yet. Without the help of the fairies, the only people left to do it are all of them.

So they go.

Jack and Spot create a competition to see who can get the most teeth the fastest, pulling Crutchie and Race both in as Jack is determined to make this at least a little fun. They try to cheat to get around each other, using their own entrances and magic to get by. Race is much more competitive with Spot than with anyone else, in fact, him and Jack team up to beat Spot.

They make a pretty good team.

But they forget to leave gifts under the kids pillows.

So they make a game out of going back through and doing just that.

Jack wins.

And they all end up in the room of one Les Jacobs.

Race catches up with Kath there first. She tells him she hasn’t been out in the field for over four hundred years and she can’t remember why she stopped. It’s not until the others join them that they get too loud and Les wakes up.

Les is amazed at the sight of them, especially Jack. But he still can’t see Race.

Before Les can say anything, his dog jumps up on his bed, growling at all of them, but mostly Spot who insists he can handle a puppy. Race isn’t so sure. So he sets off Les's alarm clock, startling the dog and laughing as it attacks Spot. Spot tells Crutchie to knock the thing out and Crutchie tries, aiming but missing, instead hitting Kath and Jack first with his magic and then Spot before he can calm the dog and put Les back to sleep.

Race is still slightly amused until he hears Spider laughing.

Les’s letting brother Elmer, only four, sneaks into the room and uses Jack’s magic ball to transport somewhere without anyone knowing.

Crutchie and Race are forced to face him alone. They’re lured out into the street where Spider summons his army of nightmares and attacks them with it, explaining to Crutchie that he stole the concept of his magic, taking the good dreams and turning them into nightmares. Race manages to freeze a few nightmares, but they’re no match for the big army and Crutchie ends up struggling to get away.

The rest of the gang tries to catch up to them, only for Spider to get Crutchie and infect him with bad dreams forcing him to give up and dissolve into nothing.

Race screams for him but can’t do anything to stop it.

They watch as Crutchie dies and Spider only laughs at them.

They go back to the North Pole where they make a small shrine for Crutchie. It’s the first time in three hundred years that Race sees Spot cry.

Though the group is upset and frustrated, Spot makes it known that Easter is still in a few days and they have to go get ready for it. He hopes it’ll bring everyone’s spirits up.

Jack offers to take the sled again, but Spot says since it’s his turf, it’s his way or no way, just as he taps his foot on the ground and creates a rabbit hole without warning and they all fall down into it.

Once they get there, Spot notes that something’s wrong.

They all gear up for a fight until they realize that it’s just a tiny little boy. Elmer. Les’s little brother.

None of them have any idea what to do, except for Race who tells them that they live everyday working for kids. Kath tries to talk to Elmer but ends up scaring him even more so Race tells Spot to give it a try.

Spot is mortified. But he walks over to the scared child and Race throws a snowball at him, spreading the joy of winter onto him and Spot immediately knows what to do to calm Elmer down, taking the kid into his arms and asking if Elmer wanted to help him paint Easter eggs.

All of the guardians help watch Elmer while they all paint eggs and get ready to hide them until Elmer eventually falls asleep in Spot’s arms.

Race promises to take Elmer back home and return before Spider comes back even though Spot asks him to stay in case there’s another attack on them.

He goes anyway, putting Elmer back to bed with the help of Smalls before he hears someone calling for someone named Antonio. He knows he’s heard it before. So he follows it falling into Spider’s lair where he finds all the fairies and is ambushed by Spider who gives him a pretty decent beating and taunts him with the fact that his greatest fear is that no one will ever believe in him. While they’re arguing, Race manages to swipe his tooth and his memories.

Spider manages to distract him long enough to capture Smalls and let his nightmares destroy all of the Easter eggs Spot and the others painted and hid, ruining Easter and causing the world to lose faith in Spot, making him invisible to the world.

Race tries to beg forgiveness, trying to explain, but Spot can’t hear him out and walks away. Jack tries to comfort him but Katherine pulls him away.

So Race runs away to Antarctica, hiding out for a little bit until Spider finds him. The boogeyman tries to convince him to join his side, but Race refuses. So Snyder turns against him immediately, hreatening to kill Smalls unless Race gives up his staff. After a long moment of hesitance, Race gives it up and demands Spider give him back Smalls. But Spider refuses, moving to take Smalls with him until she bites him and flies back to Race.

Spider snaps Race’s staff in half, causing Race to feel physical pain. Before he can recover, Spider throws him into an icy pit and throws his staff in after him. And Race cries for a minute, hugging Smalls to him until she wiggles out of his grasp and gets into his sweatshirt pocket while Race sobs about never doing anything right and ruining everything he touches. He thinks Smalls is just hiding for warmth until the container with his memories inside is placed in his hand.

Smalls prompts him to open it.

Eventually he does.

And it all comes back to him.

He remembers a boy that looks just like him with brown hair and brown eyes. It takes him a while to remember that it was him.

He remembers making kids laugh and having fun with them even when things seemed bleak.

And he remembered the day he died.

He did it to save his brother’s life.

Romeo.

He told him they were going to have a little fun instead of Romeo falling through ice.

He used the staff to throw Romeo to safety and fell in himself.

That’s when the moon chose him.

After this, Race is ecstatic. He’s smiling and laughing and happy because he understands now. He remembers his family. So he takes his staff and forces it back together with his magic and chases after Spider, Smalls on his shoulder all the way.

He goes back to Spider’s lair and tries to free the fairies only for them to be unable to fly because none of the kids believe in them. All but one have lost hope and Race knows immediately where to go.

Finding Les all alone in his room, his faith fading fast, he makes it snow the boy’s bedroom, drawing in frost on his window of Easter eggs and Christmas presents.

Les recalls the name of someone his brother mentioned once. Mr. Frost.

He turns around to Race who takes a minute to realize that Les can see him and is more excited than he’s ever been. Race tells Les that he needs his help. He takes Les to find the rest of the guardians, finding Spot only supported on Jack’s back as he was getting weaker and weaker. Katherine could no longer fly and Jack could hardly walk. Race tells Les that everything’s gonna be alright before just as they’re cornered by Spider who tells them that for hundreds of years no one had believed in him.

He explains that back in the dark ages he thrived on the fear of others but the moon chose Jack, Katherine, Crutchie and Spot to counter him and bring hope to the world. He says that now it’s their turn to be forgotten and he goes to strangle Jack who drops Spot to the ground as he fights for air but he’s too weak to fight Spider off.

Les tells Race he’s scared. It’s the same thing Romeo had said to him before. So he tells Les they’re going to have a little fun instead and he manages to catch Spider off guard so he can and Kath can get everyone on a makeshift sled and they can go get the rest of Les’s friends.

Once Les’s friends see him flying, they can all see Race who Les introduces as Mr. Frost. They rally all of his friends together and it gives Spot enough strength to stand on his own, fighting right beside Jack as he comes to.

Spider introduces himself to the kids as the boogeyman who haunts their dreams and will continue to forever. Les tells him that just because he might believe in him, doesn’t mean he has to be afraid of him, and when Spider comes at him to hurt him, Les just stands his ground and the black sand turns back to gold.

As all of his friends stand by his side, Les tells Spider that he can’t have his dreams and Crutchie emerges from the golden sand, taking Spider by surprise and knocking him unconscious.

Jack's first reaction is to hug Crutchie tightly and all the other guardians join him in second.

When the kids try to figure out what happened, Race distracts them with a snowball fight which all of the guardians join in on.

Realizing he’s lost, Spider tries to crawl off and escape.

Jack catches him with all the others close behind. Spider says there’s nothing they can do to stop him from trying again, but soon realizes he’s surrounded by his own nightmares and they can sense his fear. They’re ready to pounce.

The nightmares charge at Spider and drag them down to what we can only assume is the underworld.

Jack then looks at Race and asks him if he wants to be a guardian, if it sounded fun to him.

Race accepts the offer, getting named The Guardian of Fun by the man in the moon.

I hope you guys like this one! I think it’s so fun! Lemme know if you wanna see more from this AU.

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gxrcias-gothgf · 4 years

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Darcy Reid Piano Headcanons

I'm not sure if I've mentioned this

But Darcy plays piano

He claims it one of his only talents

But we all know that's a lie

But this boy is so amazing on the piano

His mom played piano for him as a kid to calm him down

And around 5 he started trying to play

Key word here is try

His poor mom

He was awful for a while

At first it was just him wanting to smash the keys because that's fun

I mean he was only 5 so what do we expect

He had a really short attention span

He still does but that's for another day

His mom took the time to help learn how to read music

It took some time

And by some time I mean a long time

But it was worth it

Even now if it's been a little longer than usual since he's played he still has some issues remembering

Back to the actual piano

At around 6 he started to practice though

Like actually practice

And he became a fast learner

When he was 7 he was in a Christmas piano recital

He played the most advanced song for his age group

Aspen, his sister, was so proud

After that recital to the age of 10 he took a break

When he got back into it he had to relearn how to read music

But he wanted to play again so he dealt with it

Present day

He still is a super fast learner

Like insanely fast

He normally can't memorize or learn things quickly

But piano is just different

He plays piano for his lovely boyfriends

He learns Elmer and Davey's favorite songs just so he can see them smile when they hear them

He loves playing BTS songs

Leave him alone he loves them

He doesn't really know why but one of his all time favorite songs to play is "Epiphany" by BTS

It's just such a beautiful song

And he loves the story

He also loves playing "Satisfied" from Hamilton

Darcy loves finding the most challenging song he can find and attempting to learn it

Most of the time he can play it

There was one instance though

Oh it was bad

He couldn't play one song

And it was a song his sister loved and he felt awful because he couldn't play it for the life of him

It wasn't even a difficult song to play

He just kept messing up slightly

And he was so upset

So instead he finished learning Davey's favorite song

And then he learned Elmer's favorite

And then suddenly it was 7 am and he hadn't slept

Like I said

He's a fast learner when it comes to piano

There have been so many times where he fell asleep trying to learn a song and woke up because he hit the keys

Or just fallen off the bench

His poor forehead

And his poor back

I was trying to write young Darcy headcanons and this is what I came up with. I apologise

Anyway this is all I got for now

#for once i wasnt writing angst for darcy #who knew i could do that #darcy reid #rp darcy reid #rp darcy #darcy x elmer x davey #darvy

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marcusssanderson · 5 years

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50 Veterans Day Quotes to Honor our Heroes

Our latest collection of veterans day quotes on Everyday Power Blog.

Veterans Day is a day to honor our military veterans for their service to the country. It is a day to salute our heroes for the sacrifices they made for our nation.

The origin of Veterans Day can be traced back to World War I. The Armistice with Germany, which formally ended the war, went into effect at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. That is the origin of Veterans Day.

Veterans Day is not to be confused with Memorial Day. While Memorial Day honors those who died while in military service, Veterans Day honors all American veterans, living and dead.

It takes tremendous courage for a soldier to risk it all to protect his/her country. The least we civilians can do is to offer thanks to these extraordinary men and women. In that respect, here are some inspirational Veterans Day quotes to help you honor them.

Veterans Day quotes to honor our heroes

1.) “Honoring the sacrifices many have made for our country in the name of freedom and democracy is the very foundation of Veterans Day.” – Charles B. Rangel

2.) “The willingness of America’s veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.” — Jeff Miller

3.) “Spending time with America’s soldiers is always inspiring.” – John Boehner

4.) “Without heroes, we are all plain people, and don’t know how far we can go.”– Bernard Malamud

5.) “This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.” – Elmer Davis

6.) “Our flag does not fly because the wind moves it… it flies with the last breath of each soldier who died protecting it.” – Unknown

7.) “America’s veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.” – Steve Buyer

8.) “Support our troops!” we cry, but I say, “Love our veterans!” And when he neglects church, take him cookies anyway. Sing him a song. Pet his cat.” – Chila Woychik

9.) “Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys. Look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death!” – Sun Tzu

10.) “This is a day we remember the toil, of the blood and the battle on far distant soil. Lest we forget – lest our memories should fade, ’twas our boys that we lost, ’twas a high price they paid.” – Greta Zwaan

Veterans Day quotes to say thank you to our military

11.) “The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.” – George Eliot

12.) “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” — John F. Kennedy

13.) “How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!” – Maya Angelou

14.) “It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.” – Norman Schwarzkopf

15.) “For the veteran, thank you for bravely doing what you’re called to do so we can safely do what we’re free to do.” – Unknown

16.) “To The Veterans of the United States of America Thank you, for the cost you paid for our freedom, thank you for the freedom to live in safety and pursue happiness, for freedom of speech (thus my book), and for all the freedoms that we daily take for granted.” – Sara Niles

17.) “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” – Joseph Campbell

18.) “Peace has victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

19.) “When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?” – George Canning

20.) “When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn’t over for the veterans or the family. It’s just starting.” — Karl Marlantes

Veterans Day quotes to salute our heroes

21.) “Never was so much owed by so many to so few.” –Winston Churchill

22.) “The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.” – Douglas MacArthur

23.) “My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place–police, firefighters, and members of our armed forces.” — Sidney Sheldon

24.) “On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free.” – Dan Lipinski

25.) “Caring for veterans shouldn’t be a partisan issue. It should an American one.” – Jennifer Granholm

26.) “Twenty-five million veterans are living among us today. These men and women selflessly set aside their civilian lives to put on the uniform and serve us.” – Steve Buyer

27.) “American without her soldiers would be like God without his angels.” – Claudia Pemberton

28.) “In this Veteran’s Day we stop and are thankful for all those who have fought in wars so that we have may all enjoy our freedom. The bravery and risk that these men and women took will not be forgotten.” – Catherine Pulsifer

29.) “But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.” –Thomas Dunn English

30.) “In valor there is hope.” — Publius Cornelius Tacitus

Happy Veterans Day quotes

31.) “There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.” – Alexander Hamilton

32.) “The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.” — Abraham Lincoln

33.) “The veterans of our military services have put their lives on the line to protect the freedoms that we enjoy. They have dedicated their lives to their country and deserve to be recognized for their commitment.” – Judd Gregg

34.) “America’s Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.”- John Doolittle

35.) “In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.” – Jose Narosky

36.) “Better than honor and glory, and History’s iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.” –Richard Watson Gilder

37.) “We gather to remember, to honor those who’ve died, And thank God for the veterans who still stand at our side.” – Greta Zwaan

38.) “We owe an immeasurable debt to our veterans, to the fallen, and to the families who love them. Just as our servicemen and women have taken care of us, we must also take care of them. It is our sacred duty as a country to be there for our heroes when they need us most.” – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

39.) “Today is the day we should reminisce for those who fought valiantly for the pride, honor, and freedom of our country. Happy Veterans Day!” – Unknown

40.) “The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.” — Patrick Henry

Other patriotic Veterans Day quotes

41.) “Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

42.) “Our veterans accepted the responsibility to defend America and uphold our values when duty called.” – Bill Shuster

43.) “I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.” – Gary Hart

44.) “It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.” – Zell Miller

45.) “Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.” – Douglas MacArthur

46.) “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” – George Orwell

47.) “Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what our positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers.” – Zack Wamp

48.) “To those seniors, and especially elderly veterans like myself, I want to tell you this: You are not alone, and you having nothing to be ashamed of. If elder abuse happened to me, it can happen to anyone. I want you to know that you deserve better.” – Mickey Rooney

49.) “We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.” – Cynthia Ozick

50.) “We recognize and celebrate the heroes all of our veterans, we shall forever be grateful. You inspire and encourage us, your unselfishness, your courage, and your willingness to protect our freedom – no words can express our thanks.” – Kate Summers

Which of these Veterans Day quotes was your favorite?

Our military veterans risked it all to protect the freedoms that we enjoy. They accepted the responsibility to defend America and uphold our values when duty called.

Our heroes deserve recognition for the commitment and dedication to their country. Hopefully, these quotes have inspired you to honor these great men and women with words of appreciation.

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