| First Name : John |
| E-mail address : jwash0867@aol.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : internet search |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : excellent information. Well done. |
| Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) : I am a trumpeter and a school band director. I have been called upon to play taps and have been asked by students how to play the call for various reasons. This will be an excellent resourse. |
| First Name : Dave |
| E-mail address : DGoo281094@aol.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : Search on AOL |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Wife is doing research paper on Taps |
| Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) : I have heard the Cpt Ellicombe story at Memorial day ceremonies in the past, and I am glad that the truth comes out. I was going to relate that again at MemorialDay services, but I wont now. Thanks |
| First Name : Larry |
| E-mail address : j1939@swbell.net |
| How did you hear about this site? : Looked it up on google |
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| Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) : Military escort in WWII after war to many funerals in New Jersey. Served in Pacific and Tokyo GHQ |
| First Name : John |
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| How did you hear about this site? : Read Article in Rochester NY Democrat and Chronicle on-line His Taps helped change tradition at military rites regarding; Albert Little says he suggested to his commanding officer that “Taps” be played away from graveside at a funeral in the mid-1950s. |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Great site and will share link with others. Im an Air Foce veteran served 77-81. My Dad was a Navy WWII vet. |
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| First Name : John |
| E-mail address : jcanter@wi.rr.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : When Jari visited the Southern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery. |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Lots of good information for reference when asked about Taps! |
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| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Debunking the Taps Myth is a necessary service. It has verified my long standing disbelief. Thanks. |
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| First Name : Mark |
| E-mail address : mwshue@salisbury.net |
| How did you hear about this site? : From Bugles Across America website |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : EXCELLENT |
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| First Name : David |
| E-mail address : dlight@crtelco.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : did a search on taps |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Very interesting. I received an email with the myth about taps and wanted to check out if this was true. Thanks for clearing my up my question. |
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| First Name : Suzanne |
| E-mail address : suzascheans@hotmail.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : Link from West Point Taps site. |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Wonderful site. Good history. |
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| First Name : Sandra |
| E-mail address : DIXIEBUGLE@aol.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : ITG journal |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : As a female Viet Nam era Army bugler whose honor it has been to have done over a thousand renderings of Taps it is great to see this website!! |
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| First Name : joseph |
| E-mail address : jsforte@prodigy.net |
| How did you hear about this site? : After hearing the false story of Capt Ellicombe that was on the internet, I browsed it myself and found your information which I knew to be correct. |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : I really enjoyed your very precise and informative article on the origin of taps. |
| Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) : I was a bugler at West Point for 26years, retiring in 1973. I still play funerals with the VFW and local National Guard. |
| First Name : frank |
| E-mail address : natfrankc@aol.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : from my son who enjoys history |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Happy to know the true story |
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| First Name : MARTHA |
| E-mail address : ALABAMAGARDENER@ |
| How did you hear about this site? : GENEALOGY WEB SITE |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : VERRY, VERY INTERESTING! |
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| First Name : Harry |
| E-mail address : harbab77@aol.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : e-mail |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Great site! Very informative,appreciate your effort |
| Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) : No stories, Ive heard it played mamy,many times during my military service during WWII--Very beatiful, very comforting. |
| First Name : Jean |
| E-mail address : jrl@smig.net |
| How did you hear about this site? : From Roots-L maillist |
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| Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) : The singing of Taps (no bugler!) was the way we ended the day when I was a teen-ager attending summer camp. Today it invarably brings tears to my eyes! |
| First Name : Rosco |
| E-mail address : docrosco@bigpond.com.au |
| How did you hear about this site? : Trying to find info on bugles, bugle playing and last post found your website via google search engine... |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Well, what can you say...it is the only informative site on bugles on the web and it is brilliant !! |
| Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) : Must learn the Last Post and Rouse by 26 April 2004 for our Anzac Day memorial here in outback Australia...Many thanks Jari !! |
| First Name : Russell |
| E-mail address : russell.long@co.ngb.army.mil |
| How did you hear about this site? : Listed on TAPS found by Google Search engine. |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Most interesting and I will order the information booklet. |
| Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) : None of my daughters have served. But my third daughter is a trumpeteer and specializes in TAPS and the echo with her musical group. She gives me chills. |
| First Name : John |
| E-mail address : usaf1@tampabay.rr.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : Email from Jari |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Great site Jari. Thanks for letting me know about it. I will pass along your information to other members of the USAF Drum Corps Alumni through our website. Thanks again! John Dowlan, Webmaster Http://usafdrumcorps.us |
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| First Name : Charle |
| E-mail address : charles.ashcraft@us.army.mil |
| How did you hear about this site? : Web Search |
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| First Name : Lisa |
| E-mail address : felinesmom@aol.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : doing research for a Memorial Day lesson with my 4th grade students |
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| First Name : Boyd |
| E-mail address : joep@metrocast.net |
| How did you hear about this site? : Followed a link. |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : I downloaded a wav file titled:Taps.John Wayne told a very brief story about its orgin.While he told the story,Taps played in the background.It was the first time I ever knew there were words.I spent 20yrs in the Air Force and in all that time,never knew |
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| First Name : Dan |
| E-mail address : ddybala@dart.org |
| How did you hear about this site? : Looked up taps on Google and found you. |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Thank you very much for the information on the history and performance of taps. I just performed taps yesterday for a fallen police officer. I was asked to perform taps by my wifes supervisor who works for the Richardson Police Dept. She had heard my wife |
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| First Name : Margaret |
| E-mail address : Springer |
| How did you hear about this site? : Ask Jeeves website |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : This is an amazing and very educational website. It has given me more knowledge and understandig about Taps, and has given me the opportunity to better explain to others why I have chosen to accept the Honor of performing Taps when I am called upon. |
| Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) : I am currently a 21 year old female who has been given the honor of performing Taps for the last six years at funerals, memorial services, ect. For the last few years my health hasnt permitted me to perform my duty, and it breaks my heart everytime that I |
| First Name : Marilynn |
| E-mail address : mpasden@juno.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : friend sent your website link after I had forwarded her the Ellicomb story forwarded to me |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Loved your site! Could you fix it so the entire text is readable? I often had to miss parts because of overwriting or pictures covering text. |
| Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) : Dont know any, but Im going to forward the link to the people to whom I sent the Ellicomb story.One friend is a Civil War buff. |
| First Name : M.Wong |
| E-mail address : gleywong@erols.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : Through Google. |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : My compliments on 24 notes that tap the heart, for that is just what happened today, Memorial Day, when I heard it played at Rock Creek Cemetery for the Diplomatic and Consular Officers, Retired (DACOR) memorial service. Very, very moving, as is the deta |
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| First Name : Russ |
| E-mail address : Russ ope@aol.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : Web search |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : A complete and concise history. |
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| First Name : Paul |
| E-mail address : gilmoreas16@yahoo.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : From my son, a graduate of Valley Forge Military Academy. |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : The most interesting site on the WEB!! |
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| First Name : Albin |
| E-mail address : apcrutch@cox.net |
| How did you hear about this site? : typed bugles in Google. |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Very informative. |
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| First Name : WILLIAM BAKER |
| E-mail address : lbaker7@columbus.rr.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : Fellow Church member after he played TAPS for the Memorial Day Service.(2003) |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : |
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| First Name : Sandy |
| E-mail address : Livelyline |
| How did you hear about this site? : Searching for Infomation |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : |
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| First Name : Steve |
| E-mail address : swhaupt@att.net |
| How did you hear about this site? : |
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| First Name : John |
| E-mail address : jepjarhead@comcast.net |
| How did you hear about this site? : Through TPIN |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Very Good |
| Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) : I am the NJ State Director of Bugles Across America and Veteran USMC Bugler. Call me any time. |
| First Name : Robert |
| E-mail address : bobb7@mindspring.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : Searching the web. |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : I am speaking to a group ans I will be playing a tape of the Taps. I was in the military and I wanted to get the words that I remembered correct. Your first verse is the way I remembered it. Day is done, Gone the sun, etc. Thank you, |
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| First Name : Paul |
| E-mail address : paulross@wtp.net |
| How did you hear about this site? : Linked in from hitsandfavorites.com |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Beautifully done! Thanks for reminding us of the cost of our beautiful land and the freedoms we enjoy. |
| Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) : I played the trumpet in school and naturally was (tapped) for bugle duty in my Boy Scouting days. I felt it a privelege to call others to mess, work, activities and the remembrance at the end of the day. It was one of the richest experiences even as I att |
| First Name : Ned |
| E-mail address : ned@cmapeacemakers.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : Google search for the history of TAPS. |
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| Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) : I researched TAPS to include it as part of my sermon on Memorial Day Sunday, 2003, when we will give special honor and recognition to the living veterans, and honor for those who made the Supreme Sacrifice. |
| First Name : Lew |
| E-mail address : lesbrana@att.net |
| How did you hear about this site? : Just surfing the net and found you. Im playing taps three diferent times on Monday, May 26 (Memorial Day services). I wanted to make sure I played it correctly (dotted eigth and sixteenth vs. straight eith notes) Enjoyed your web site. Thanks! |
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| First Name : Dean Frasure |
| E-mail address : fras7479@bellsouth.net |
| How did you hear about this site? : through my home page bellsouth.net |
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| First Name : Denny |
| E-mail address : DTurner673@aol.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : Through my search for information and resources for the observance of Memorial Day 2003. |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Interesting and helpful information. Thank you. |
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| First Name : PETER |
| E-mail address : julie@latham44.freeserve.co.uk |
| How did you hear about this site? : Surfed in for info on TAPSand types of bugles |
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| Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) : Sounded TAPSIn The Chapel of OMAHA BEACH MILITARY CEMETERY NORMANDY FRANCE Thursday 15th May 2003. MAY ALL REST IN PEACE INSTRUMENT Bb Cornet |
| First Name : Duna |
| E-mail address : dhodge2@cox.net |
| How did you hear about this site? : I saw a National News story last year (I forget which network) on BUGLES ACROSS AMERICA, and finally did some surfing and looking, and I stumbled on a link or two that led me to you. |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Many salutes are owed you for your website and your service to America, and Id like to personally thank you. |
| Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) : After more than 20 years as a Navy Bugler, like you, I consider it my honor to be involved with any tribute the nation can render, whether the service member was a hero or an innocent victim. |
| First Name : Ian |
| E-mail address : ismith3143@aol.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : browsing google looking specifically for taps |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : an interesting site. can anyone tell me where or how I can obtain a copy of taps in the UK |
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| First Name : greg |
| E-mail address : gregorywhite@cs.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : Ask.com |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : After sounding the call for over 20 years, its a relief to finally see the written notes with the correct tempo. Thanks |
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| First Name : Toni |
| E-mail address : auntietat@excite.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : search engine |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Enjoyed knowing about the origin of TAPS. |
| Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) : I have played TAPS at our families annual gathering at a cemetery in Indiana (the gathering has been going on for some 100 + yrs). I play with a trumpet. I hope that doesnt bring any dishonor to the way it was originally played. |
| First Name : Neil |
| E-mail address : nrand@wi.rr.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : Just surfing the WEB |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : I am looking for someone to teach me to play this song. |
| Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) : This song always brings a joyful tear of remembrance to me. I think of my buddies who served with me in Viet Namn and this song was played was played for them (Chris, Orvil, Tim, Jack and Christopher). I remember my father, and other WWII vets who had thi |
| First Name : Herb |
| E-mail address : HerbMell@aol.com |
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| Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) : You may or may not be aware of John Waynes CD titled AMERICA Why I Love Her. He narates a very stiring version of Taps. Ill be happto share mine with you. |
| First Name : Fay |
| E-mail address : sixkingsinc@juno.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : Looking for the words to Taps |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Interesting to read the story of taps as Ive sung it in Girl Scouts and heard it every year at Memorial Day services. |
| Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) : My uncle, Albert Ronca, of Roseto, Pennsylvania is an 85-year old Veteran of WWII who played taps on a Pacific Island for the funeral of war correspondant Ernie Pyle (Im not sure of the spelling.) Albert, still proudly plays taps every year at the towns M |
| First Name : George F. Melick |
| E-mail address : geomelick@AOL.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : I joined Bugles across America. |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : Excellent. Ive just started exploring it. |
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| First Name : john |
| E-mail address : jricha22@nycap.rr.com |
| How did you hear about this site? : bugles across america |
| Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) : great site and indeed needed |
| Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) : I am in the Saratoga N.y. National Veterans Cemetery Honor Guard. I play taps every Thurs. We are all veterans,average age of 64.(120 strong) |