Please remember all f our soldiers, both past and present for their service to our country.  Today is a day set aside for this noble purpose.

Buglers and trumpeters throughout our country have played, are playing and will play Taps for those who have willingly paid the ultimate price for our freedom.

I have seen many different, heart-touching stories spread about the origin of Taps.  Here is the real one from the Arlington National Cemetery web site.

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I had been playing trumpet for just over a year.  Being in the eighth grade, it was unusual to get a call on our party-line home phone from a total stranger.  The man on the phone asked me if I could play taps on Monday evening for President John Kennedy who had been assassinated the previous Friday. Read more »