Wow... So, I've been looking into Taps tonight, since a member of Ay-Ziggy-Zoomba.com posted information about BuglesAcrossAmerica.org. BuglesAcrossAmerica was founded on the premise that every veteran of the US military deserves a live rendition of Taps to be played at their funeral. Congress passed a law in 2000 stating that every vet was entitled to two soldiers to fold the flag and play a CD recording of Taps. This organization finds volunteers in all regions of the country who are willing and able to play Taps at these funerals...providing a touch more class and honor than a boom box. With the aging of America and more vets dying each year (500,000/year for the next 4 years), there is a shortage of buglers... If you can play, sign up!!
So then I found this information about Texas A&M University and their tradition of Silver Taps that they perform whenever an A&M student dies... pretty cool... It choked me up reading about it while the horns played...
That's cool...I just went and volunteered as well. Thanks for the link on that. :) Now that I've moved to the pacific NW, I don't have the connections anymore that used to ask me to go play for those things, so my bugle just collects dust. Maybe now I can use it for something again.
# Posted by: T at April 21, 2005 10:38 AM