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| First Name : Bev |
| E-mail address : revbevak@hotmail.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : Forwarded to me by a man who works with our Boy Scout troop. |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Really awesome - great history. I also play in a church band and a community band, and will share this site with a lot of people. |
| Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) : I spend at least two full weeks every summer at our local Boy Scout camp, so I get to see several Scouts work on their Bugling merit badge. They drag bugles all over camp, blowing on them day and night (quiet hours dont seem to apply to buglars, somehow)! |
| First Name : John |
| E-mail address : stev8862@bellsouth.net |
| How did you hear about this site? : A Friend |
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| First Name : Don Davis |
| E-mail address : WA2OCL@ARRL.NET |
| How did you hear about this site? : Just looking for answers about the origin |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : I have played trumpet for 53 years and over the years got many calls from Legions and VFW to play at funerals. At least in this conflic not many Taps will have to be played. Thank God |
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| First Name : IRVIN |
| E-mail address : IDGODSACRE@SUM.NET |
| How did you hear about this site? : BY RESEARCHING THE ORIGIN OF THE MUCH PUBLISED STORY ON TAPS AS IT IS BEING SPREAD ON THE INTERNET. I WRITE MONTHLY ARTICLES FOR OUR CHURCH NEWSLETTER AND I WANTED SOMETHING RELATIVE FOR THE MONTH OF MAY THAT IS TRUTH. SEEKING A SYNOPSIS OF ITS ORIGIN. |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : VERY INFORMATIVE AND INTERESTING. THANK YOU. |
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| First Name : Les |
| E-mail address : ledearing@att.net |
| How did you hear about this site? : Because of receiving and forwarding a Myth, someone, my daughter, sent me this webb address. |
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| First Name : Vivian |
| E-mail address : hauter@pea-ridge.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : I was looking for the true story of Taps as I had received that e-mail & had a friend tell me she didnt think it was true. |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Very interesting! Nice to know the real facts. |
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| First Name : Hugh (MSG, USAF ret.) |
| E-mail address : hmvance@peoplepc.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : Found it listed in a Truth or Fiction.com article refuting the sentimental story about origination of Taps, now circulating thru E-mail. |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Will be back to read in detail when time permits. Thank you for your research and information about this hauntingly beautiful bugle call. |
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| First Name : Charles |
| E-mail address : charly@dimston.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : Received a totally different and obviously erroneous story from a friend as to the origin of taps |
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| First Name : Gai Squires |
| E-mail address : gaiguns@aol.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : childhood school chum, sent it as a correction to an email I passed along not knowing what I was talking about. Im as grateful as I am embarassed after reading this. |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Wish fervently Id known this history before I so frivously passed on a bleeding heart email! I feel somewhat cheated by not knowing this history from school. |
| Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) : no story to tell other than the heart tugging familiar to everyone who has attended a military funeral. (Just a military wife.) |
| First Name : marie |
| E-mail address : malandess@jayco.net |
| How did you hear about this site? : from cousin ckporter@pacbell.net |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : it is wonderful |
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| First Name : Debra |
| E-mail address : thistlehollow@earthlink.net |
| How did you hear about this site? : Found you by looking for history of Taps. |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Wonderful. I too have always been moved by the sounding of Taps. |
| Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) : Received an e-mail relating the Ellicombe story and determined to refresh my memory. Have old recording of John Wayne telling story of Taps. Not entirely accurate either as it says Butterfield was a man of music. |
| First Name : James |
| E-mail address : james.arruda@attbi.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : Asked Jeeves |
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| First Name : Chuck |
| E-mail address : clkincaidus@yahoo.com |
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| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Thanks, Touching, informative, and tasteful. |
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| First Name : Taina |
| E-mail address : tainapo@swbell.net |
| How did you hear about this site? : email |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Wow, Jari! Its awesome to know that you have made a difference in this world! Great to be remembered for something! All started by a question... |
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| First Name : Adam |
| E-mail address : Shortround2ndus@yahoo.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : Jari you told me about it of course in an email and talking with you this past weekend |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Great and informative site. Never knew that much about taps as i do now. Thanks for sharing your info with the world. See you at the next event. |
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| First Name : Joseph |
| E-mail address : genheimstrumpeter@msn.com |
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| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : hey Jari, I know who those 2 unknow buglers are! nice joke. Joseph |
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| First Name : Brian |
| E-mail address : bbintz@utah.gov |
| How did you hear about this site? : Friend |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Interesting |
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| First Name : George |
| E-mail address : georgelv@aol.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : Attempting to find more on the history and background of Taps. |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Enjoyed learning the important history of Taps very much. |
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| First Name : Carlton |
| E-mail address : CHARVESON@AOL.COM |
| How did you hear about this site? : A FRIEND. |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Wonderful and Inspiring. |
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| First Name : lynn |
| E-mail address : mpcheatham@earthlink.net |
| How did you hear about this site? : email from a friend |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : very interesting and informative |
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| First Name : Larry |
| E-mail address : ljawret@attbi.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : Just surfing the net |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Very nice |
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| First Name : Magan |
| E-mail address : |
| How did you hear about this site? : by a friend |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : This is a graet site |
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| First Name : John |
| E-mail address : johnross@fuse.net |
| How did you hear about this site? : From a document entitled 24 Notes That Tap Deep Emotions that I received by e-mail. |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Fascinating site... enjoy the history. |
| Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) : No story except that I was a bugler for my Boy Scout troop in Ithaca, NY during the late 40s. Taps was my favorite call as it was melodic and haunting. I recall that I was considered quite a ham for my rendition. |
| First Name : Robert |
| E-mail address : WltzMkr2k@aol.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : I learned of this site via Jaris e-mail to me. |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Congratulations, Jari. This is an incredible site - educational, informative, necessary. Thank you! I shall spread the word of its existence. |
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| First Name : nancy |
| E-mail address : nehooper@aol.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : Someone sent me the internet myth about the Taps origin. I didnt buy the heart ripping story and knew I needed to the real facts. |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Very informative sight. Hearing Taps is spiritually moving for me. It indears respect. |
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| First Name : Don |
| E-mail address : d.grumpy@verizon.net |
| How did you hear about this site? : I received an e-mail with the phony story of Taps and I wanted to straighten out a few people, and give them the tue story. |
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| Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) : I met Jari in Erie, Pa a few years ago. He was doing a presentation on Taps & also playing. I also played that day..I think it was Armistice Day (Veterans Day). |
| First Name : pat |
| E-mail address : patjubyassoc@mindspring.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : from a friend in Louisanna, with a son in the Marines. |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Wonderful site, glad to know about it. I am a widow of a Marine, have 2 Marine sons ,One Army . All to old to be serving now.Thanks for the opportunity to view site. |
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| First Name : Melissa |
| E-mail address : DarkSpecter632@Hotmail.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : Google Rules |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Interesting To see a site devoted to this. Very cool |
| Share your Taps or bugle-related stories (limit 25 : After 5 years of Bugling, 250 characters arent nearly enough for one of my better stories. |
| First Name : Robert |
| E-mail address : novacsa@erols.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : Jari soke at our Brandywine Valley Civil War Roundtable in West Chester, PA I am the President, Robert Paul Sprague |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Wonderful! Entertaining! Informative! Thank You again! |
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| First Name : CPL Wilmont Douglas |
| E-mail address : mtspiderman@yahoo.com |
| Comments on this site : Excellent site! TONS of great information. |
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| First Name : James |
| E-mail address : jamesapiper@satx.rr.com |
| Comments on this site : It is a most appropriate site for educating those who know nothing of this beautiful piece of music or its history. |
| Share your Taps or bugle-related stories : While waiting for an appointment at one of the Armys largest hospitals, I struck up a conversation in the coffe line with an Army Colonel who was a resident psych. The conversation moved quickly to what was the most depressing thing about growing older as |
| First Name : Bill Roosa |
| E-mail address : broosa@roosacorp.com |
| Comments on this site : You are a true pioneer,and the work you have done is a God send in bringing to and preserving the heritage & culture of of this glorius nation. |
| Share your Taps or bugle-related stories : I enlisted in the U.S.M.C. in Aug of 1951,Mr. Vacchiano[Principal Trumpet N.Y,Philharmonic and Professor of Trumpet at the Juilliard chool] told all of his students you must first be a good buglerAnd you my friend are a shining example of what this great |
| First Name : Toni |
| E-mail address : tpreale@optonline.net |
| Comments on this site : as an Army wife, I have heard TAPS played many times. Each time evokes a different emotion, but always with a lump in the throat. I fear that with this current conflict, we will be hearing it played more & more. Thanks for sharing this information. |
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| First Name : Jay |
| E-mail address : jmaritz@elknet.net |
| Comments on this site : We intend on playing Taps at the end of our Cub Scout Blue & Gold Banquet and I was tasked with finding some history on Taps. I had previously been told the myth about the father & son, but I wanted to try and verify it. I cam across your site and the his |
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| First Name : tom |
| E-mail address : tayco@gamewood.net |
| Comments on this site : thanks for your time with this |
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| First Name : Carl |
| E-mail address : Grampymay@webtv.net |
| Comments on this site : My son Chuck MAY (Comdr. USNR, retired) suggested I check out your site. I have just logged on, so havent checked out all of it as yet |
| Share your Taps or bugle-related stories : I have been playing Taps for over 55 years at American Legion and patriotic functions ever I was discharged from the Navy, and joined the Legion in l945. My specialty was playing for Memorial Services held at all Distrct 2, Mass. A.L. installations and |
| First Name : Patricia |
| E-mail address : patsy2@bigpond.com.au |
| Comments on this site : Very impressive! |
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| First Name : Thomas |
| E-mail address : tgcole@shaw.ca |
| Comments on this site : Great site. Took some searching to find it. |
| Share your Taps or bugle-related stories : While at attached to Canadian Army Headquarters I played the bugle at many military funerals. I got pretty hard nosed about the tears that the Last Post (taps) brought forth. The only time I nearly lost it was at a funeral of a young officer who had left |
| First Name : David Frost |
| E-mail address : davisonfrost@juno.com |
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| First Name : Grover Longnecker |
| E-mail address : groverlong@hotmail.com |
| Comments on this site : Beautiful web page jari. |
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| First Name : joe |
| E-mail address : paw@alligators.com |
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| First Name : Jim |
| E-mail address : JimOReilly@aol.com |
| Comments on this site : Its a great site!!!!! I enjoyed everything on it. |
| Share your Taps or bugle-related stories : My web site explains it all, WWW.BlowThatHorn.com |
| First Name : Gene Horner |
| E-mail address : alaskabugler@yahoo.com |
| Comments on this site : Keep up the good work. I checkin daily to see whats here. I was worried that with the end of the Taps Project all that information would be lost. Now I see its found a proud new home and a great meida to get it out. |
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| First Name : Mark |
| E-mail address : mlee@dol.net |
| Comments on this site : Finally, the correct history of TAPS and not that drivel which has gone around the internet!!! I have referred many to your site for the correct version. WE in Vincents need more instruction of the bugle call. Where can I get a CD of CW calls? |
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| First Name : Douglas Hedwig |
| E-mail address : dhedwig@nyc.rr.com |
| Comments on this site : Congratulations, Jari, on the new website! It looks wonderful; very informative & inspirational. |
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