Bugles Across America.

[Sirrahsim]

That is a really awesome!


I have to admit that when I read the title I read it as "BULGES" across America and thought it was going to be some sort of comment on obesity

[RICHARD]

That is a really awesome!


I have to admit that when I read the title I read it as "BULGES" across America and thought it was going to be some sort of comment on obesity

Or the Buggles?

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I have to say something about the words to Taps.

I am glad that hardly anyone knows that there are lyrics to the music.

Can you imagine some yoyo wanting Taps to be banned because the word "god" is used and we
have to separate 'church and state'.


The thought scares and irritates me.

As you all know, the separation of C+S trumps all, but to mess with a tradition that honors the end of the day and our fallen soldiers is too much to contemplate.

For me? Sadly, I'd love for the public to remain blissfully ignorant of the news.

[moosmom]

That's despicable that someone wouldn't want it played because the word God is in it. Know what I say to that??? During the 21 gun salute, don't point to the sky. Get my drift???

[RICHARD]

That's despicable that someone wouldn't want it played because the word God is in it. Know what I say to that??? During the 21 gun salute, don't point to the sky. Get my drift???

Yes, it's sad.

Let's keep it under our hats!

[Karen]

I have known the first verse since childhood. Traditionally, there are two buglers, or trumpeters. One is nearby and within sight, the other is farther away, hidden and uses a mute. The second waits until the first is done, and the is the "echo."

Both my brothers are trumpeters, so usually at the cemetery stops during Memorial Day parades in which I participated, I knew one of the two players.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Or the Buggles?

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I have to say something about the words to Taps.

I am glad that hardly anyone knows that there are lyrics to the music.

WHAT???? Hardly anyone knows the words??? I have, like most Americans, known the first two verses since I was a very young child. I learned it at summer camp.

Heck, we learned the song and the "Native American" hand signs that went with it.

Honestly...>

[Catlady711]

WHAT???? Hardly anyone knows the words??? I have, like most Americans, known the first two verses since I was a very young child. I learned it at summer camp.

Heck, we learned the song and the "Native American" hand signs that went with it.

Honestly...>

I always knew the first whole verse, we used to sing it at summer camp every night at the flag lowering ceremony. However we never learned hand signs to go with it.

*eta, I consider this the first whole verse;
Day is done, gone the sun,
From the lake, from the hills, from the sky;
All is well, safely rest, God is nigh.