[Qcwa] TAPS

[Bob West]

What's really moving is when they properly place another bugler on the next hill
to play the echo, just following the nearby one. I heard that once at a service
put on by the VFW. It was very powerful.

Joseph Fenn wrote:

> Gentlemen,   the following true story is about the Bugle call "TAPS"
> which is true and came from the Civil War in our country.  I wont
> quote the introductory story of how it came about, but it was on
> the battlefield.  Just read the words as you hum the sorrowful sound
> of TAPS as the bugler does it.
> The haunting melody, we now know as "Taps" ... used at military funerals was
> born.
> The words are:
> .. Day is done ... Gone the sun . From the lakes... From the
> hills ... >From the sky.  All is well...Safely rest ...God is nigh .
> Fading light ... Dims the sight ... And a star... Gems the sky ...Gleaming
> bright .From afar . Drawing nigh ... Falls the night ..
> Thanks and praise ... For our days .. Neath the sun ....Neath the stars
> ..Neath the sky . As we go ... This we know ... God is nigh...
>                   Joe/KH6JF
> 
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73,
Bob WA8YCD

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