MOULTRIE, Ga. —  “All gave some … Some gave all,” CPO Louis Simpson recited as he spoke Monday at the annual Memorial Day commemoration at Cobb Funeral Chapel.

He called out to the loved ones of servicemen who had died in combat: “You’ve given more than most,” he said.

Simpson, a 14-year veteran of the Navy, led the audience of more than a hundred in respectful remembrance of servicemen who gave their lives.

More than a million service members have died in service to the country since the American Revolution, Simpson said. Another 82,000 are still missing, and operations are going on right now to locate and recover those service members.

While deployed to Europe, Simpson said he and other sailors visited Normandy, site of the D-Day invasion. As part of the tour, he saw a cemetery for America’s dead from that battle.

“It was a magnificently kept place,” he said. “… I was in awe, but even in awe, my chest stuck out a little farther.”

The appearance of the cemetery was a testament to the great respect held for the fallen warriors, he said.

He urged everyone in attendance to “Keep the fallen in your minds.”

In addition to Simpson, other participants included the Daughters of the American Revolution and the National Society of Colonial Dames of America, each of which provided wreaths in memory of fallen service members; the Rev. Ron Shiver, who gave the invocation; the Colquitt County High School Junior ROTC Color Guard, who presented the flag, and their adviser, Lt. Col. Paul Nagy, who led the Pledge of Allegiance; Cpl. Johnnie Shiver, who played Taps; and Mark and Penny Hancock, who performed patriotic music.