there's an organization called taps for veterans, and their thing is to get live buglers to play taps for the funerals of veterans, because apparently that's a thing the government decided to cut back on.
all the money in the world for tanks or planes we don't particularly need but not an awful lot of money for the benefits of the actual service people.
and that is not OK, because regardless of how one feels about the wars, we as a society made promises to those service people. we OWE them what we promised them, and better.
the military honors they are entitled to are perhaps a small thing, but every last one of them who wants those honors should get them.
anyway, this year they had an initiative in which people from all over stood to play taps at 3PM local time on memorial day. so i went up to the west bolton cemetery and played there. i met a gentleman there who was paying respects to his dead, including he great grandfather, who enlisted twice in the civil war.
here's the story from CBS news:
and here's me:
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That set me to stand to attention. I did rather like having to stop and salute, no matter what we were doing, to respond to bugles.
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