Bostonian, Harvard graduate, Civil War veteran, and US Supreme Court Justice, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. might be best remembered as one of the most influential common-law Justices in all of United States history; however, this American intellectual was also a fierce abolitionist who survived the Civil War.
In his famous Memorial Day speech, given on May 30, 1884, Holmes, Jr. addresses an audience in New Hampshire about his experiences at war and the importance and value of sacrifice.
--Jen Choi
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