Taps and the lone bugler
Every time I hear “taps” played, it touches me in so many ways
The lone bugler at the end of the day or a fallen soldiers grave
A call say’n rest you warrior I’m watch’n over you from above
whether the heat of battle or sacrifice you will know God’s love
Each note to give you peace, touch your heart & rest your mind
in what you have and will face as death any place and any time!
Jimmy on Memorial Day, 2012
Lord of our lives, our hope in death, we cannot listen to Taps without our souls stirring. Its plaintive notes are a prayer in music–of hope, of peace, of grief, of rest… Prepare us too, Lord, for our final bugle call when you summon us home! When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound and death will be no more.
-From the invocation delivered by Chaplain (Colonel) Edward Brogan (USAF, Ret.) at the Taps Exhibit Opening Ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, 28 May 1999
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