[Qcwa] TAPS

[Norm Gertz]

Marine Corps buglers often perform that duet.......it is a very moving
experience. Buglers are a vanishing breed now sad to say and many of the
burials use a transistorized player built into the bugle.

73    Norm    K1AA


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob West" <rlwest at wa8ycd.net>
To: "Discussion of QCWA" <qcwa at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 8:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Qcwa] TAPS


> 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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