Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps

Thank you, my friend Lt Col Charlie Brown for making us aware that listening to a bugler playing taps is "beautiful, touching and always makes me teary."

Thank you, my friend Maj Marty Hogan for making us aware about your poignant memories at Taps:
1. That you were "pall-bearer at my cousins' funeral in 2000, we had grown up together and were about two years apart maybe and he was my best man. He was serving in my Guard unit when I left teh Reserves and was a mid-career NCO with a great future ahead of him. He was killed in an auto accident and my aunt wanted me in the front- and this was the hardest thing I have ever done in the military before and since."
2. I completely concur with your assessment about Taps. Taps playing each evening is soothing until we associate it with the death of somebody close to us.
FYI PO1 Jerome Newland PO1 Robert George COL Mikel J. Burroughs SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL

Thank you, my friend SMSgt Lawrence McCarter I certainly concur with your assessment that when a single bugler plays Taps it is "greatest honor for any of our fallen Military members ro the sign of peaceful rest at the days end."
FYI SP5 Jeannie CarleSPC Chris Bayner-CwikPO1 Jerome NewlandTSgt David L.PO1 Robert GeorgeSGT John MelvinISG John FairclothSN Donald Hoffman