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mjbrown · Nov 29, 2012

I'm playing taps tomorrow for a WWll vet's burial. He was a flight engineer on a B24 based in Italy. He flew 51 combat missions. He was awarded five bronze stars and a bunch of other distinguished service citations. I feel honored to do it and to have lifted a glass or two with him.

Mike (WA) · Nov 29, 2012

Thanks to your friend for his service, and to you for making his final celebration a little more meaningful.

Mark6005 · Nov 29, 2012

Fewer and fewer wwII vets left thanks for showing your respect. A gentleman I know still insists on doing the salute for the legion during ceremonies. He is a blind wwII vet. Afterwards he always jokes that it"s good the shells are blanks.

Anonymous-0 · Nov 29, 2012

Play the TAPS PROUDLY ,,that is a tremendously powerful mournful tune.. dad passed away in 2008 at 92 ,.his eulogy is in your stories (EULOGY FOR DAD )
My Dad was in the south pacific ,,4 island at battles and was wounded 3 times ,, each time they sent him to honoluluto recover ,..i took him to hawaii in 1998 and 2002,,he was a dandy .and i still miss him ... jim

Anonymous-0 · Nov 29, 2012

That was a very special generation. I only wish in my younger years I had spent more time with men and women that survived the depression only to come out on the other side into a 2nd world war.
The sacrifices those men and women made were incredible and I cannot give them enough thank yous and how absolutely proud I am to be a descendant of the greatest generation of all time.

PaGlenn · Nov 29, 2012

I thank him for his service. May he rest in peace.

JD Seller · Nov 30, 2012

I am glad you will be able to help give your friend and a Veteran a good send off. I wish I could play a Bugle well enough to play the music correctly.

JMS/.MN · Nov 30, 2012

JD- something tells me, that with all your other talents........I'd be satisfied if you played Taps at my funeral. Just hope not too soon, OK? Same response I gave to our HS music director at the Veterans Day program a year ago, after she and the choir sang the 'Ballad of the Green Berets', and the MC announced that a Nam vet told him that there is one GB in the audience, would he want to stand and be recognized? I told the director the same thing then, about how I want HER to play/sing that song at my funeral (we go to the same church).....just hopefully, not too soon! Interesting that before the program that same day, when we Vets were lining up, I told her that when she started that Vets program, I felt it was the first 'Thank you" I ever got.....30 years after serving. Today, we treat our Vets so much better, including my youngest daughter, currently in Afghanistan. She extended TWO years to get to finish her deployment!

37chief · Nov 30, 2012

Tomorrow We will be going to my wife's uncle's funeral, a WW2 veteran. Soon they will all be gone. The last of a great gerneration. Stan

Nancy Howell · Nov 30, 2012

Say thank you to him and his family for James & I.

Even if I had any musical ability, don't think I would be able to get through taps at military funerals.

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