"Taps" Bugle Call: USMC Drum & Bugle Corps [YouTube]

"Taps" Bugle Call: USMC Drum & Bugle Corps [YouTube]
YouTube filmed at the National Mall's Vietnam Memorial, Washington DC; compilation by Joy Berger, Editor in Chief; retrieved from the internet 5/22/25
We invite you to begin this Memorial Day with this reflective playing of "Taps." Its simple, 24 notes evoke poignant memories and emotions for persons of all generations. Ongoing, we share with you these resources below for the veterans and their families whom you serve.

• Taps for Veterans - Request a Bugler: "With over 1,000 veterans passing away each day and not enough military buglers to attend every funeral, most veterans receive an audio recording of Taps. Taps for Veterans believes that a veterans’ final honors are worthy of a live rendition of our National Song of Remembrance. ... We match buglers with families of veterans who wish to honor them with the sounding of Taps. We are standing ready to serve once again, just make your request and we will do our best to fulfill it."
  
  
• Find a name on the The Vietnam Veterans Memorial: This can be an important tool for your social workers and chaplains to use with Vietnam veterans and families for whom the deaths of loved ones then are still "with them" today. 
  
  
• T*A*P*S - Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors: Bookmark and recommend this easy-to-remember website for Gold Star Families: taps.org. 
  
  
• "Remembering a bugler's broken note," by PBS: "The assassination of President John F. Kennedy [in November 1963] was followed by four days of grieving, culminating in a final farewell at Arlington National Cemetery. As Principal Bugler of the United States Army Band, Sgt. Keith Clark had played “Taps” at Arlington hundreds of times. But On Nov. 25, 1963, he was there to play the solemn 24-note melody for the president’s state funeral. In the rendition of “Taps” heard by millions around the world, Clark fumbled the sixth note of the tune. The broken note served as a symbol of sorrow to a lamenting nation.