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James Jones, wrote about Taps in his novel, “From Here To Eternity”:

He looked at his watch and as the second hand touched the top stepped up and raised the bugle to the megaphone, and the nervousness dropped from him like a discarded blouse, and he was suddenly alone, gone away from the rest of them.

The first note was clear and absolutely certain. There was no question or stumbling in this bugle. It swept across the quadrangle positively, held [...]

TAPS-The Digital vs. Live Buglers in Missouri in 2007

In September 2007, the State of Missouri announced they would stop using live buglers to sound Taps at veteran funerals. The Missouri National Guard’s honor guard members will use digital or fake bugles, outfitted with an internal electronic device that plays a digital recording. It would be instead of live buglers at graveside, musicians often hired by contract. The decision was said [...]

Arlington National Cemetery and Memorial Day
Traditions Born in Irony

On any weekday at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, a military ritual occurs that is both familiar and moving. An escort of honor comes to attention and presents arms. A firing party then fires three volleys. After the briefest of moments, a bugler sounds the twenty-four notes we know of as Taps. The flag, held by members of the military honor guard, is then folded into a triangle reminiscent of [...]

In LaFayette's Country Orson Lowell

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Buglers Between the Civil War and WWI
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