The dead we honor: Remembering the fallen this Memorial Day through Shakespeare

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The dead we honor: Remembering the fallen this Memorial Day through Shakespeare
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Memorial Day inspires mixed emotions: pride in the valor of those who gave their lives in the cause of freedom, and sorrow that such self-sacrifice should have been necessary. Pride in past valor may be best expressed in the St.

Crispin’s Day speech from “Henry V” , delivered by the young king on the eve of the Battle of Agincourt.Tax lien sales by NYC threaten to worsen the affordable housing crisisBy Jove, I am not covetous for gold,Such outward things dwell not in my desires:No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England:For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!Let him depart; his passport shall be madeThat fears his fellowship to die with us.Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named,And say ‘Tomorrow is Saint Crispian:’But he’ll remember with advantagesThis story shall the good man teach his son;But we in it shall be remembered;Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,The English at Agincourt lost about 700 men; the French dead totaled at least 8,000, including seven princes of the blood and the flower of French chivalry.Doctor who falsely diagnosed healthy patients to fund lavish lifestyle in $118M scheme learns his fate

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