They fought together as brothers in arms; they died together and now they sleep side by side... To them, we have a solemn obligation — the obligation to ensure that their sacrifice will help make this a better and safer world in which to live.

Of those who died in the war in the Pacific, after ceremonies in Tokyo Bay accepting the official surrender of Japan (2 September 1945); part of this is engraved on the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.