taps

[mjbrown]

I'm playing taps tomorrow for a WWll vet's burial. He was a flight engineer on a B24 based in Italy. He flew 51 combat missions. He was awarded five bronze stars and a bunch of other distinguished service citations. I feel honored to do it and to have lifted a glass or two with him.
 

[Mike (WA)]

Thanks to your friend for his service, and to you for making his final celebration a little more meaningful.
 

[Mark6005]

Fewer and fewer wwII vets left thanks for showing your respect. A gentleman I know still insists on doing the salute for the legion during ceremonies. He is a blind wwII vet. Afterwards he always jokes that it"s good the shells are blanks.
 

[j hikemper]

Play the TAPS PROUDLY ,,that is a tremendously powerful mournful tune.. dad passed away in 2008 at 92 ,.his eulogy is in your stories (EULOGY FOR DAD )
My Dad was in the south pacific ,,4 island at battles and was wounded 3 times ,, each time they sent him to honoluluto recover ,..i took him to hawaii in 1998 and 2002,,he was a dandy .and i still miss him ... jim
 

[BigLar]

That was a very special generation. I only wish in my younger years I had spent more time with men and women that survived the depression only to come out on the other side into a 2nd world war.
The sacrifices those men and women made were incredible and I cannot give them enough thank yous and how absolutely proud I am to be a descendant of the greatest generation of all time.
 

[PaGlenn]

I thank him for his service. May he rest in peace.
 

[JD Seller]

I am glad you will be able to help give your friend and a Veteran a good send off. I wish I could play a Bugle well enough to play the music correctly.
 

[JMS/.MN]

JD- something tells me, that with all your other talents........I'd be satisfied if you played Taps at my funeral. Just hope not too soon, OK? Same response I gave to our HS music director at the Veterans Day program a year ago, after she and the choir sang the 'Ballad of the Green Berets', and the MC announced that a Nam vet told him that there is one GB in the audience, would he want to stand and be recognized? I told the director the same thing then, about how I want HER to play/sing that song at my funeral (we go to the same church).....just hopefully, not too soon! Interesting that before the program that same day, when we Vets were lining up, I told her that when she started that Vets program, I felt it was the first 'Thank you" I ever got.....30 years after serving. Today, we treat our Vets so much better, including my youngest daughter, currently in Afghanistan. She extended TWO years to get to finish her deployment!
 

[37chief]

Tomorrow We will be going to my wife's uncle's funeral, a WW2 veteran. Soon they will all be gone. The last of a great gerneration. Stan
 

[Nancy Howell]

Say thank you to him and his family for James & I.

Even if I had any musical ability, don't think I would be able to get through taps at military funerals.