First Name :   David E-mail address :   dtbutler@hotmail.com How did you hear about this site? :   google Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   very nice summary Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   I am in the USAF Honor Guard and sometimes serve as the Bugler at funerals. First Name :   Chuck E-mail address :   cdksgt@yahoo.com How did you hear about this site? :   From a video I have on my Tagged profile page Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Very nicely put together. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   I also play taps for our veterans day ceremony at the hospital I work at. Being a Marine, I am very patriotic. First Name :   Nicki E-mail address :   nbiggs1217@sbcglobal.net How did you hear about this site? :   I was searching for the words to Taps and this site came up when I Googled it. Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   I have enjoyed reading about the history of Taps and the many related stories. I will keep it in mind for future reference! Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   I am a sign language interpreter. While interpreting at a funeral recently I relized I had forgetten the words to Taps. I am prior military and should have know the words but couldnt recall them. I have them now and will add them to my collection of songs First Name :   Wayne E-mail address :   waynehogue@yahoo.com How did you hear about this site? :   I attended a Civil War Roundtable where Russell Booth told the story of the origin of Taps - of Butterfields changing the tempo of Tattoo at the end to make it more pleasing. The Tattoo was played 1/2 hour before the bugle sounded what became TAPS. It was Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :    Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Judy E-mail address :   mckee911@comcast.net How did you hear about this site? :   e-mail from a friend Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Absolutely astounding ! ! We all have so much to learn and so much to be thankful for. god bless You ! Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   erick E-mail address :   erick_pollock2003@yahoo.com How did you hear about this site? :    Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   thank u for giving me a better understanding of what ive heard everynight for most of my life. i never understood what i meant till i joined the marine corps, but i never knew how it came about till now. thank you. Cpl Erick S. Pollock USMC Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Dennis E-mail address :   deno2@optusnet.com.au How did you hear about this site? :   online Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Fascinating stuff.. thank you Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   When I am asked to do the Last Post /Reveille in Australia I have this bugle that was made in 1918 which I use First Name :   Brian E-mail address :   bspatri#peoplepc.com How did you hear about this site? :   Google Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Thank you. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   no comments First Name :   Dana E-mail address :   bchfuz@aol.com How did you hear about this site? :   Just kind of fell into it. Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Very informative !!! Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   As a member of the VA Beach Police Honor Guard since 1984,my job is flags in parades and taps for funeral.I take the time to properly play the 24 notes and present myself in the highest tradition as bugler. At funerals end,I stay at gravesite as a last wa First Name :   Joann E-mail address :   PreciousOne25@aol.com How did you hear about this site? :   Just wandering through.... Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Great site, very interesting. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Missy E-mail address :   ma24179@aol.com How did you hear about this site? :   http://journals.aol.com/preciousone25/JoannsWeightLossJourney/entries/2008/05/26/memorial-day-08/1353 Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Enjoyed looking around your site. Happy Memorial Day. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Mike E-mail address :   jimmccld@yahoo.com How did you hear about this site? :   internet browsing Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   I love the recognition of a national treasure Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   oliver E-mail address :   oliurede@tmail.com How did you hear about this site? :   I just wet fishing on memorial day. Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   I was thinking of my uncle who served in the army during ww11. This is great information it is go to know. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Lance E-mail address :   lrganassi@comcast.net How did you hear about this site? :   Google search Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Thank you for this site on this Memorial Day, 2008. Lance R. Ganassi SSG USA RVN 1968-70 Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Walter Woo E-mail address :    How did you hear about this site? :    Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :    Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Warren E-mail address :   pastorlamb@hotmail.com How did you hear about this site? :   link from usmemorialday.org Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Solid historical information. Thanks for keeping this important part of history alive. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   Been playing TAPS since the 60s - probably the greatest honor, even more than officiating the funerals themselves. First Name :   EDWARD E-mail address :   eegidcumb@brtc.net How did you hear about this site? :   FOUND IT ON THE MEMORIAL DAY WEB SITE Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   GOOD Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   I PLAYED TAPS ON 4/26/06 IN FRONT OF THE WALL OF STARS AT THE WWII MEMORIAL IN WASHINGTON DC. PICTURE & DVD AVAILABLE FOR PROOF. I AM PROBABLY THE ONLY ONE IN STATE OF KY TO DO THIS AS FAR AS I KNOW. First Name :   Jim E-mail address :   jjenkins@ffic.com How did you hear about this site? :   Brass Resources website Thank you for the site. Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Wonderful, thorough history and stories. Trumpeter/ Bugler 48 years. Taps was my first song. Play it like a prayer. The first note is the hardest, the rest follows. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   Boy Scout Camp every night, and a few funerals, including friends; Memorial and Veterans Days at the cemetary. A mournful, sweet, sad and hopeful tribute. Its a priviledge to play. First Name :   Paul E-mail address :   twinthomas2003@yahoo.com How did you hear about this site? :   Link from USMA website Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Great site. Thank you. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   I am an old soldier, and every time I hear taps I think of comrades who have died in the defense of liberty and freedom, and my own father and uncles who all fought in WWII in Europe and the Pacific. First Name :   Kelly budau E-mail address :   Budau1999@yahoo.com How did you hear about this site? :   Look it up Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :    Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Thomas E-mail address :   chapatkins@msn.com How did you hear about this site? :   Googled it Who wrote TAPS? Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   TAPS never fails to put a lump in my throat and a tear in eye, even after after officiating for 26 years as a Navy and Marine chaplain. I share this website with family members of those we heroes we hold in remembrance. THANKS! Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   As a Navy Chaplain for 26 years I officiated at hundreds of funerals and other solemn events. I always had a lump in my throat at the sounding of taps. Thanks for your website that share with the families of those I officiate remembrance. First Name :   John E-mail address :   plattjohn3@zoominternet.net How did you hear about this site? :   Just came across it while doing some research and getting things in order for my passing. Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   I think this site is super, it gives loads of great information about the History and making one of our most reconizable tunes. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   I can still relate to that early Sunday morning when the terrorists drove the truck loaded with Explosives into the Marine quarters in Beirut. I had been there with them just a few weeks before that awful day. Every time I hear taps being played I deeply First Name :   Marie E-mail address :   mckl@knology How did you hear about this site? :   I was looking for a story on TAPS to begin my colmun in this months local MOAA newsletter. I heard it at my fathers,(WWI,WWII) my brother and husbands Air Force funerals. Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   I was not familiar with the beginning of the TAPS and found it most intersting. Thank You Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Robert E-mail address :   ussubvet2@yahoo.com How did you hear about this site? :   Surfing the Web for a bugler to play Taps at our Submarine Veterans Day Ceremony Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :    Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   LEON E-mail address :   BELIN3@JUNO.COM How did you hear about this site? :   Received an e-mai about TAPS Went to Snope.com for more data Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   It certainly does bring tears to your eyes when you hear TAPS played Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Sidney & Tommie Sue E-mail address :   sidneyallen1014@yahoo.com How did you hear about this site? :   Searching for the music to TAPS. Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Im a Baptist Pastor. Sunday we are doing a tribute the our Veterans and First Responders as a part of remembering 9-11. No bugler available. My wife will play TAPS on the organ with a horn setting. Thanks, Sidney Allen Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Rex E-mail address :   rbudwig@rexs-reef.com How did you hear about this site? :   Google search Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   The site was informative, and held a copy of taps that I was looking for. This afternoon my Father-in-law a WWII Veteran passed away and it seemed appropriate to play Taps. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Alan E-mail address :   akeeley@optonline.net How did you hear about this site? :   I foud it while searching internet for history of Taps Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   I have found comfort in your site to clear up all the false stories Ive heard and will continue to play it proudly Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Jim E-mail address :   james.cary1@us.army.mil How did you hear about this site? :   From a friend at NSA. Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Beautifully done, thank you. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   During the Vietnam War, I was a Survivor Assistance Officer at a funeral in Hazard, KY. I had the honorable duty to bury an Active Duty Sergeant First Class who died in line of duty. All went well until Taps. Standing about 10 meters from the grave site, First Name :   Brandon E-mail address :    How did you hear about this site? :   Surfing The Web Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Great Site, Great Links, Great Purpose Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   ColonelDan E-mail address :   Colonel-Dan@sbcglobal.net How did you hear about this site? :   search engine Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Good site Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   Never played anything before, have ordered a bugle & instruction book, plan to learn taps...if my dog dont bite me First Name :   Bob E-mail address :    How did you hear about this site? :    Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Very interesting and informative site. A civilian, Ive sounded Taps at local funerals since I was in high school (30+ years now), and today is the first Ive heard about the straight eigth notes. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Janice E-mail address :   janese127@yahoo.com How did you hear about this site? :   I received the story of Taps several years ago in an e-mail. I wanted to refresh my memory so I Googled The story of Taps and this was oe option so clicked on. Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   This is a must site for anyone who has been, is, or wants to be in the military. This is the part of history that eludes too many people. The story is as fascinating and heart-wrenching as the song itself. Thank you. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Patsy E-mail address :   indixiesheart@hotmail.com How did you hear about this site? :   Blingo searched..After reading the ecrombie version on a net site.. Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   This site was informative... But it does leave me to ponder ! Was the real story the boys and fathers from virginia owned TAPS and the military took it to make there own.. Or was it the othe way as mentioned on this site ! EITHER way I am glad TAPS Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   I love TAPS to be echoed and heard. Especially upon my ears.. Taps always was a welcoming sound! FREEDOM it reminds me of why wars ! Maybe I loved it because DAD was military ! When I was a military wife ! When Taps played..WE FROZE where we were at! BEAU First Name :   Oscar E-mail address :   ocortez1@cox.net How did you hear about this site? :   Just put in the word taps in google Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Thanks for providing some great information. I am the Phoenix Police Departments bugler. I appriciate your web site. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   I just started and have performed taps for several officers deaths. First Name :   Bill E-mail address :   b1falcon@bellsouth.net How did you hear about this site? :   An e-mail from a friend on the history of TAPS. Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Great site which I will bookmark for a return visit. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   I have a friend whos father enlisted in the Marine Corp at age 15. (Yes, he lied about his age). In addition, my friends father, at the age of 15 was the first to play TAPS at Pearl Harbor after the attack. There was a very nice artical in the newspaper o First Name :   John E-mail address :   jamaw@wideopenwest.com How did you hear about this site? :   Internet Search Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Good site. I have often thought that I would like to learn to play Taps, but I dont have a musical note in my body. I am a Viet Nam era veteran and a member of the American Legion. My father was in the 101st Airborne during WW II and my three sons all hav Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Zute E-mail address :   zjpalm@enter.net How did you hear about this site? :   Found it looking for the history of Taps! Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Keep up the good work, anything related to supporting our troops past and present is very rewarding. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   Im in a drum & bugle corps so Taps is a very important piece of music for us. The people we use on occasions to play take care in being correct in every aspect of the the performance. Reverence is a word not used lightly in our Corps. First Name :   Richard E-mail address :   el63410@alltel.net How did you hear about this site? :   The Sampsonite Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Thank You for the Taps music copy. I hope to get my Grandson and Granddaughter to play it. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Robert E-mail address :   padyjasek@aol.com How did you hear about this site? :   Googled TAPS. Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Great site, taught me a lot as I was never in the military - thank you for sharing it. My father was in the Navy (was at the Bikini Nuclear Testing in the South Pacific actually) TAPS was played at his funeral and I will never forget it. Thanks. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   JERRY E-mail address :   dirtydog5116@aol.com How did you hear about this site? :   SEARCH ENGINE Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   I AM A NAVY DISABLED VETERAN I WOULD LIKE MY GRANDSON TO LEARN HOW TO PLAY TAPS SO HE CAN PLAY IT AT MY GRAVESITE WHEN I DIE Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   H D pinkham E-mail address :   LTPINK@HUGHES.NET How did you hear about this site? :   GOOGLE SEARCH TAPS Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :    Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Danny E-mail address :   Cpldrod@aol.com How did you hear about this site? :   Looking for stuff on bugles. And how to play. (TAPS) I have a US REG Bugle. Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Good Site- lots informations Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   I servered on WORLDTAPS this year as an Former Marine Honor Guard in Brooklyn NY. First Name :   Tim E-mail address :   timothy.hasko@us.army.mil How did you hear about this site? :   Google Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :    Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   Mine is more of a story of Taps. I recently stumbled upon your website. I am truly inspired by Taps. I never really knew its meaning in Before Sept 11, 2001 when an acquaintance of mine AG2 Matthew Flocco, US NAVY was killed in the Pentagon. After that da First Name :   John E-mail address :   john_serafin@yahoo.com How did you hear about this site? :   Just surfed in. Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :    Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Sean E-mail address :   seanmickal@yahoo.com How did you hear about this site? :   Found it on my own Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Great, just great. History that I love Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   I am trying to volunteer. I was set for Memorial Day 2007, but OBE due to work related meetings. First Name :   David E-mail address :   coxuscgaux@bellsouth.net How did you hear about this site? :   Link from the BAA site Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Excellent source of info! Im learning a lot from your website. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   Our Coast Guard District is currently compiling a list of personnel to participate in honor guards for Coast Guard funerals. As a member of the CG Auxiliary, Im brushing up on my trumpet and volunteering myself as a bugler. First Name :   Linda E-mail address :   lap39667@yahoo.com How did you hear about this site? :   I looked it up because I received some erroneous info about the origin of TAPS & I wanted to find out the real truth & I was right. Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   A good site! I am a military mom & TAPS holds a dear spot in my heart. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :