Remembering on Memorial Day James Garfield had once said, “If silence is ever golden, it must be beside the graves of fifteen-thousand men, whose lives were more significant than speech, and whose death was a poem the music of which can never be sung,” for a ceremony honor the 620,000 who have fallen in 1888 due to the Civil War. This ceremony was known as Decoration Day and is now well known as Memorial Day. Every Memorial Day we remember and respect all who have served our beloved country and hear the 24-note bugle call known as TAPS, with synchronized gunshots after a red, white, and blue parade. I wanted to acknowledge the numbers of the men and women who had served for our democracy to help people understand the reasoning more strongly about these services. Military Members Lost: American Revolution: 4,435 dead War of 1812: 2,260 dead Civil War: 620,000 dead Spanish American War: 387 dead World War One: 116,708 dead World War Two: 407,316 d...