Taps Buglers At ARLINGTON National Cemetery »
Posted By cowboygrandpa 4 months, 2 weeks ago in StyleA montage of the Buglers and some funerals at Arlington National Cemetery. Taps is played at the end of it. Lest we forget those who honorably served and serve. I've heard this more than I care to remember, yet it is the most haunting and humbling tune I've yet to hear.
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cowboygrandpa4 months, 2 weeks ago
Verse for Taps:
Day is done, gone the sun, from the lake, from the hill, from the sky.
All is well, safely rest. God is nigh.
My Addition to the Verse.
Your war is done, from now on, no more pain, no more tears, only cheers.
Though we grieve, you receive. Heavens best.
Rest well my friends' Chief and Ben.
Rest well all who have gone on to that better place, where there is no war. Peace abounds. The sounds are joyful and pleasant.
I'll see you again one day and what a joy that will be.
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KicBoxStallion4 months, 2 weeks ago
AMEN
thanks 4 the beautiful words of comfort CBGP!
and boo! and no thx 4 the grave fillers in wash-DC!!!
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cowboygrandpa4 months, 2 weeks ago
Thanks baddad.
May you and yours know the goodness in life as well.
Peace to all of our brothers and sisters who came home. And to all who went home early.
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Dicax_Maximus4 months, 2 weeks ago
cgm - Your comment matches why it's also called the "Last Post" (well, in the UK anyway)........
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raats66624 months, 2 weeks ago
I hate to say it, but it looks like we learned our lesson with Vietnam. Too bad THOSE vets had to suffer the bad to get to the good.
I wasn't, however, sure that we HAD when this war started and any descent toward the WAR was immediately spun to mean a lack of support for the troops.
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mcgrievysr4 months, 2 weeks ago
cowboygrandpa----"I too hate the war. But I have a love for our soldiers and what they do"
Absolutely!
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lvrofwolves4 months, 2 weeks ago
Appreciation goes beyond a thank-you.
Taps, even as a child I would tear up and have a big lump in my throat, it's even more emotional as time goes, understanding becomes clearer and clearer.
CBG, thank-you for posting the lyrics, many people do not know them, even despite that, the tune is very powerful.
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tchef4 months, 2 weeks ago
Very nice. Since I have never served I can't imagine how much this means to those who have. Thank you to all of you who have served, and thank you to all who have given the ultimate sacrifice for our country.
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Will13134 months, 2 weeks ago
Thanks to all that have served and a moment of silence to remember the ones who paid the ultimate price.....
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Amen
Thanks for the moving way to begin my Memorial Day....
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raats66624 months, 2 weeks ago
I can only hope that your brothers came after a LONG and fulfilling life and not as a young man.
No family should have to bury a loved one who has their whole life ahead of them as has been done over 4,500 times in the last 7 years by families of the brave men and women serving in our military to protect our country and our world.
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tkyrchncs4 months, 2 weeks ago
I made it ok through every time I heard it, even if teary and sad, until they played it for my Dad. It's hard, CBGP, but really poignant. Thanks.
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bugluver4 months, 2 weeks ago
Thank you CBG. My daughter has the Honor of playing taps Monday morning for our towns Veterans Day tribute I'll show her what she has to live up to
Cowboy, Baddad, swampfox, and all you other vets the words thank you sound so pathetic compared to what we owe you but thank you and God bless you
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cowboygrandpa4 months, 2 weeks ago
bugluver:
I hope your daughter does well.
Thanks for your kind thoughts, and God Bless you and yours.
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LumFan4 months, 2 weeks ago
Thank you for the post, cowboygrandpa. Very moving video.
And to everybody who served in the military, thank you for your service.
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socialnetworkin4 months, 2 weeks ago
Thank you for sharing. I really enjoyed the visuals along with the bugle notes. Beautiful!
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jfredmuggs4 months, 2 weeks ago
Taps has strong funereal connotations now, but it is the Army's official lights-out call, as author John Pullen wrote: "It is the army's lullaby, the one expression of tenderness it allows itself." It was composed in July 1862 at Harrison's Landing, Virginia, in the wake of the disastrous Seven Days battles that drove the Union Army from the gates of Richmond. Gen. Dan Butterfield was dissatisfied with the official Lights Out, so he composed his own alternative, called the brigade bugler to sound it, altered a couple of notes, and decreed that the brigade would henceforth use that, instead of the official call. Other units heard the haunting call, adopted it themselves, and it spread rapidly through the whole army. As Pullen noted, the place to get its original flavor is out in one of the old western forts, like Riley or Sill.
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texangelwings4 months, 2 weeks ago
Oh, wow, my tears are falling for all of our soldiers and their families. This happens everytime I hear Taps!
Our soldiers and their families deserve our full support! It was our soldiers that I thought of when working at the bomber factory on the F16, to inspect and assure that they had a quality aircraft to fly.
I wish that this war was over!!
Thanks cowboygrandpa!
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BronxBomber4 months, 2 weeks ago
I am very grateful that my two nephews made it out of Iraq, and are now presently home, despite fighting with insurgents, and witnessing atrocities plus seeing their own buddies die before them, who I hope are at peace. This is to them. I salute you for giving the ultimate sacrifice,that you're service did not go down in vain, lest we forget...
That you're families will find solace in that you've performed so heroically, that you've fought for our basic fundamental freedoms, which we at times, take for granted. Peace and God Bless America.
Thank you also CBGP for this wonderful piece in rememberence of our dearly departed sevicemen, and women.
Rest In Peace.. in one with God.
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BronxBomber4 months, 2 weeks ago
"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
John 15:13
(King James Version)
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