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Yes I saw it and yes I cried. My dad. Passed away on January 1 and had a military funeral and it was hard to watch the Flag covered coffin.
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PO3 Steven Sherrill
MSG Tom Earley, I don't bother fighing back tears. Taps means that someone who fought for our freedom has been laid to rest. It doesn't matter if that is someone who was KIA in Afghanistan last week, or served in WWII it is sad to hear that an American Service member has passed. I did not think it was going to get to me until I went to my Uncle's Funeral. He served in Vietnam, and refused to ever talk about his experience over there. His veteran status was one of those things that I knew, but didn't consider because of his lack of talking about it. When we walked into the Funeral Home, and I saw the casket propped open with that US Flag drapped over it neatly folded back to just beyond where the casket opened I lost it. I still lose it. During the funeral hearing TAPS played while that flag was being folded everyone lost it. There was not a single person out of the hundred gathered who had a dry eye. To all who have served and died Thank You. To all who have lost a family member who served thank you.
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MSgt Garrick Hill
Taps
Just in case you have never viewed the words that accompany TAPS
© Pennsylvania Military College
Day is done, gone the sun,
From the lake, from the hills, from the sky;
All is well, safely rest, God is nigh.
Fading light, dims the sight,
And a star gems the sky, gleaming bright.
From afar, drawing nigh, falls the night.
Thanks and praise, for our days,
'Neath the sun, 'neath the stars, neath the sky;
As we go, this we know, God is nigh.
Sun has set, shadows come,
Time has fled, Scouts must go to their beds
Always true to the promise that they made.
While the light fades from sight,
And the stars gleaming rays softly send,
To thy hands we our souls, Lord, commend
Just in case you have never viewed the words that accompany TAPS
© Pennsylvania Military College
Day is done, gone the sun,
From the lake, from the hills, from the sky;
All is well, safely rest, God is nigh.
Fading light, dims the sight,
And a star gems the sky, gleaming bright.
From afar, drawing nigh, falls the night.
Thanks and praise, for our days,
'Neath the sun, 'neath the stars, neath the sky;
As we go, this we know, God is nigh.
Sun has set, shadows come,
Time has fled, Scouts must go to their beds
Always true to the promise that they made.
While the light fades from sight,
And the stars gleaming rays softly send,
To thy hands we our souls, Lord, commend
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It was a great film. I was surprised. I put it on as a filler movie, figured I would watch the first twenty minutes before I had to leave my house. Wound up going home later watching the whole thing from the beginning, and I have watched it one more time since then. It really does have some powerful images in it.
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I couldn't keep a dry eye through it. You know a great many of our brothers and sisters are dealing with things like survivor's guilt along with other PTS symptoms. You hope that in some way doing something like Kevin Bacon's character did in some way atones for the "sin of living".
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SGT Mark Stevens
Survivors guilt is a horrible feeling to have to deal with. Also, having to stay in rear D in U.S. Of A when your company deploys to a FOB in a combat area of a foreign country. You find out people you were supposed to be responsible for were injured enroute. Would this had happens if you were present? Could you have prevented this with your presence? Our minds are our worst enemy and our greatest asset.
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