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Perhaps take a moment to reflect this weekend for those who have served our country and paid the ultimate sacrifice.
The Bugle Call "Taps", very stirring. The Bugle call, extends the soldiers day at sun set. For some, killed in action Taps ended their physical time on earth. Taps is sounded at days end, at every military station, over the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, over the Battleship Arizona, at the the grave of a fallen comrade and on Memorial Day.
Taps is not a funeral song because it is not a sad song - - rather a prayer. They are the words of a soldier simple and direct written by General Daniel Butterfield and his Assistant Bugler Oliver Norton in 1862 during the Civil War.. (Condinced words for the Field Soldier):
"Day is Done, Gone The Sun.. From The Field, From The Hill, From The Sky. All is Well, Safely Rest. God is Nigh".
American War Casualties:
Civil War: 498,332; WWI: 116,707; WWII: 407,316; Korean War: 54,246; Vietnam War: 58,655; Persian Gulf War: 269; Iraqi War: 4,278 (Combat Related). POW/MIA's: in excess of 2500.
In the past two hundred years, over one million American's have died for this country. Monuments have been built, speeches have been delivered and a National Holiday was granted to HONOR these American Heros....
The Bugle Call "Taps", very stirring. The Bugle call, extends the soldiers day at sun set. For some, killed in action Taps ended their physical time on earth. Taps is sounded at days end, at every military station, over the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, over the Battleship Arizona, at the the grave of a fallen comrade and on Memorial Day.
Taps is not a funeral song because it is not a sad song - - rather a prayer. They are the words of a soldier simple and direct written by General Daniel Butterfield and his Assistant Bugler Oliver Norton in 1862 during the Civil War.. (Condinced words for the Field Soldier):
"Day is Done, Gone The Sun.. From The Field, From The Hill, From The Sky. All is Well, Safely Rest. God is Nigh".
American War Casualties:
Civil War: 498,332; WWI: 116,707; WWII: 407,316; Korean War: 54,246; Vietnam War: 58,655; Persian Gulf War: 269; Iraqi War: 4,278 (Combat Related). POW/MIA's: in excess of 2500.
In the past two hundred years, over one million American's have died for this country. Monuments have been built, speeches have been delivered and a National Holiday was granted to HONOR these American Heros....
Pemdat put it right ... we are free because of the brave.
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- Kelly Strong
I watched the flag pass by one day.
It fluttered in the breeze.
A young Marine saluted it,
and then he stood at ease.
I looked at him in uniform
So young, so tall, so proud,
He'd stand out in any crowd.
I thought how many men like him
Had fallen through the years.
How many died on foreign soil?
How many mothers' tears?
How many pilots' planes shot down?
How many died at sea?
How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?
No, freedom isn't free.
I heard the sound of TAPS one night,
When everything was still
I listened to the bugler play
And felt a sudden chill.
I wondered just how many times
That TAPS had meant "Amen,"
When a flag had draped a coffin
Of a brother or a friend.
I thought of all the children,
Of the mothers and the wives,
Of fathers, sons and husbands
With interrupted lives.
I thought about a graveyard
At the bottom of the sea
Of unmarked graves in Arlington.
No, freedom isn't free.