First Name :   Martha E-mail address :   mjsandholm@yahoo.com How did you hear about this site? :   BAA Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Thank you for this site! I teach instrumental music in 3 parochial schools. Our fall concert is a Veterans program. All my trumpet and cornet players are required to learn Taps with the goal for them that they can play it for funerals and other events. Th Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Dave E-mail address :   davegray@elroynet.com How did you hear about this site? :   Found it Google when I needed (and got) on a Taps protocol question. Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Great site. It has answered my every question. Jari, the Wisconsin Taps Competition Committee meets 9/29. Ill ask Dan Erikson to keep you informed. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   Near the end of my brothers 5 year battle against prostate cancer, knowing I would take part in his burial service, he said My only request is for Taps. A Legion Post in a small Wisconsin town came through for me. They provided a young lady who rendered t First Name :   Joe E-mail address :   joeroy692@aol.com How did you hear about this site? :   Via the NLEOMF web site. Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Truely informative. Fascinating. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Forest Malott E-mail address :   fmalott@umich.edu How did you hear about this site? :   web search for Taps, seeking the words Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   absoulutly great! thank you! Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   B. M. Gernandt E-mail address :   bmgernandt@juno.com How did you hear about this site? :   I received an E-mail about Taps, then looked it up and found the entire site. I enjoyed the stories Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   I had a difficult time trying to find the words that go with Taps Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   My daughters grandfather was camp bugler when he was in the Army in 1904-1914 and knew all the words to that tune First Name :   SK3 Gentry E-mail address :   kgent14@yahoo.com How did you hear about this site? :   Preparing for a training class for Funeral Duty Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :    Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Sarah E-mail address :   blackroses9292@hotmail.com How did you hear about this site? :   I was just searching for a TAPS music url for my web site. Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Finally - a TAPS url! - Beautiful version!! Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   My grandfather, U.S. Naval CMD Edward William Froelich passed July 25, 2004, at age 93, and I used to recite the lyrics to TAPS with him everytime I visited him when I was a young girl, and hed tell me the story of how it came to be. At his funeral, as th First Name :   Sarah E-mail address :   Chernetz How did you hear about this site? :   I just searched for a url of TAPS played by a bugler. Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Awesomeness! - fianlly - a TAPS url - it beautiful! Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   My grandfather, U.S. Naval CMD Edward William Froelich passed July 25, 2004, at age 93, and I used to recite the lyrics to TAPS with him everytime I visited him when I was a young girl, and hed tell me the story of how it came to be. At his funeral, as th First Name :   Kelsey 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 :   Caleb E-mail address :   gatkinsfamily@earthlink.net How did you hear about this site? :   From BAA link. Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Thank you! I am a type 1 diabetic. I cant serve my country in the military, but I can through Bugles Across America. I am very grateful for BAA. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Buddy E-mail address :   bpeiser@swbell.net How did you hear about this site? :   I did a search on www.google.com. for taps. Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Extremely interesting! Very moving and informative. I was asked to play something at the St. Croix 9-11 Memorial Event. I wanted to know how to play taps. I play slide guitar. It sounds very good on a slide (bottleneck) guitar. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   corky E-mail address :   witt5685@peoplepc.com How did you hear about this site? :   A friend Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Very informitive and enjoyable Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   My Grandfather was a WWI Bugler, I have his bugle. Its dinged up pretty bad. I dont use it but My wife and I are part of a group that Sounds TAPS at sunset thru the summer in Bridgman,Mi. at a small town on lake Michigan. It is part of the City parks depa First Name :   rodger E-mail address :   rodger.armstrong@med.va.gov How did you hear about this site? :   froma friend Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :    Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Rosa M. Weatherly E-mail address :   rosaweatherly@cox.net How did you hear about this site? :   I have been meaning to look on the internet for the music to Taps. I have never played the bugle/trumpet but have been thinking about it. I was in the military for 13 years. Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   It is super. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Ruth E-mail address :   RuthB8931@aol.com How did you hear about this site? :   Through email. Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Very Educational Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Melissa E-mail address :   guinness.goddess@verizon.net How did you hear about this site? :   while visiting Arlington National Cemetary Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   It is very informative and thorough. Being a bugler myself, I found it not only informative, but inspirational as well. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   I am with the Navy Reserves, and while not a traditional musician rate, I have studied music through college. I have played TAPS on the trumpet at hundreds of Military funerals for every branch of the service. Ive been doing this with the local VFWs & Leg First Name :   Paul E-mail address :   mroache1590@comcast.net How did you hear about this site? :   Through BAA and from having met you at the most recent Civil War Band Festival in Campbellsville. Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Excellent site! Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   I dont have any stories yet outside of how much an honor it is everytime I take the horn out to sound Taps in honor of a fallen veteran and their family. First Name :   sONNY E-mail address :   SKIRKW444@AOL.COM How did you hear about this site? :   BROUSWING Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :    Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Shirley E-mail address :   2dianne@ev1.net How did you hear about this site? :   from my american legion post 271 chaplain Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   i didnt even know this site existed until our present chaplain took office 9 years ago. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Chris E-mail address :   yasou2@juno.com How did you hear about this site? :   BAA Membership Package Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Great info, especially the Performance Guidelines. As a non-military BAA volunteer getting back into horn playing the guidelines will help. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   Played Taps during a Memorial Day ceremony. Quite a moving experience. First Name :   James E-mail address :   jbach@charterinternet.com How did you hear about this site? :   I heard about the myth and wanted to know the true story. I search the web and found your page Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   As a former military person, I really appreciate what is done for our veterans. I wish I could play and help out but I have never played any type of horn. I do play organ and so I do have some knowledge of music. Every time I hear the taps, I wish that I Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Robert Kaun, Jr. E-mail address :   rwkaun@hotmail.com How did you hear about this site? :   BAA Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :    Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   Ill e you a story First Name :   Bob E-mail address :   robert.ferrin@procigy.net How did you hear about this site? :   It was fwd to me by a friend after I sent him an article I received of a civil war officer whose son was killed in Battle and had the notes of TAPS in his pocket. Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Very informative. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   During WW2 I served aboard a Heavy Cruiser and we heard DAILY several Bugle Calls.,i.e., General Qrtrs, Torpedo Defense, All Clear and the Boatswain Whistle for Lights Out, Mess call, and Clean Sweep Down, Fore and Aft. At age 78 all are still clearly etc First Name :   Rhonda E-mail address :   eaglenest530@juno.com How did you hear about this site? :   I did a search after receiving the myth from a friend. Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Thank you for providing the truth about something so noble. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Helen E-mail address :   DAngelo817@aol.com How did you hear about this site? :   Looking for composer of TAPS. Went to West-point.org/taps/Taps.htm Checking this because of reading The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara. In this book (p. 117) Butterfield was given credit for the beginning of Taps. I became interested in this fact due to Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Enjoyed reading your summary and will pass this on to my grandson who will be attending Gettsburg College this fall. Thank you. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Joe E-mail address :   jfleitz@mchsi.com How did you hear about this site? :   Google Search - The site came up first! Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Very well organized. Lots of interesting information. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   I am a retired USAF officer (Captain) and have had the distinct honor of performing duty as a Funeral Officer while on active duty on several occasions. Once while assigned to Homestead Air Force Base in the early 1980s, our funeral team went to a cemetar First Name :   David E-mail address :   davida91@aol.com How did you hear about this site? :   via email Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :    Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   I think the first time In heard taps wad at a Boy Scout campout many years ago. (Im 70 now) First Name :   Robert E-mail address :   hsoundhaven@inteliport.com How did you hear about this site? :   Searching for taps Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Love it. As a historian and teacher, truth is always facinating, although at times it runs against the popular tide. Thank you for your efforts. We all appreciate it. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   pati E-mail address :   pherndon1113@aol.com How did you hear about this site? :   article in newspaper Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   wonderful Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   jherndon@capsources.com First Name :   Tom E-mail address :   tmarcotte@adelphia.net How did you hear about this site? :   web search Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Great site. My wife is a direct decendant of Daniel Butterfield. Were tickled to find this site! Thanks. Ill probably buy the book shortly!! Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   leon E-mail address :   kattxclauz1@adelphia.net How did you hear about this site? :   NETSCAPE SEARCH Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :    Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Ronald E-mail address :   RGG906@aol.com How did you hear about this site? :   Google Search Engine Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :    Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Charles J. Bartlett E-mail address :   cber782@adelphia.net How did you hear about this site? :   I heard about TapsBuglar from American Profile Magazine included in our local newspaper The Crescent News in Defiance, Ohio. Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Its great, it has cause me to see about getting involved and learn to play taps myself. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   I was sadden when I was at a Veteran friends funeral when this guy that was there was from a local Vet Post, when it was time he reached over pushed the buttons to one of two boom boxes which had the 21 gun salute recorded on tape or CD and then pushed th First Name :   Stephanie E-mail address :    How did you hear about this site? :   Search link. Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Dear Mr. Villanueva: Your website is wonderful! It is refreshing not to have annoying pop up ads and other commercialized flashing things. It is nice that you have dedicated the time and interest to this important historical subject. My 12 year old son wi Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Ray E-mail address :   raytjr@mindspring.com 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 :   Albert E-mail address :   Aajmadden@aol.com How did you hear about this site? :   Joining Bugles Across America. Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   I Have played Taps over 8o years for every Memorial Day now Veterans Day also. I am retired from the US Army. 28 years combined Army & Navy service. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   The WW1 Memorial, Derry , NH Veitnam there 4 July 1983, Battle of Bulge, Hyannis, MA, Korean War Mem. Hyannis June 2000 and many others through USA. My next will be 29 June at the Mass, National Cemetary.{ OVER 2500 Ceremonies across America} First Name :   freddie E-mail address :   cutts927@aol.com How did you hear about this site? :   from my major Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   it is a very nice site that seargeant major did a wonderful job playing taps Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   i played taps for the military order of the purple heart wounded combat veterans in camp pouch First Name :   David E-mail address :   drayisbell@aol.com How did you hear about this site? :   I read about it in the American Profile magazine. Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Is there any information on joining or starting a chapter in our area? Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   richard E-mail address :   loug1126@yahoo.com How did you hear about this site? :   memorial day radio program on wjr 760 am detroit hosted by warren pierce. Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :    Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Cody E-mail address :   codered_19@hotmail.com How did you hear about this site? :   i was looking to see if there were words to taps and i saw this site. It is very nice. Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   This site is great. Love ya all GOD BLESS. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   My scout troop play Taps on bugles at night during summer camps at 10:30 which we say Lights out. Then in the moring we play revillie which i think is cool. but Taps is so Pretty to hear I cry everytime i hear it. Well thanks alot. First Name :   Leslie E-mail address :   lespm16@yahoo.com How did you hear about this site? :   I was looking for information on whether a drum was to be played with TAPS and found the site through a search engine. Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Loved the sound bytes!!! Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Joann E-mail address :   omajo@msn.com How did you hear about this site? :   an email from family member Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Would be nice if many of the schools in the U.S. would share this kind of information with the students. They are so ill informed as to what our country is all about. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Maurice E-mail address :   mkurtz@cfl.rr.com How did you hear about this site? :   classmate Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :    Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   How do I handle spouses? First Name :   Soledad E-mail address :   enriquez_930@msn.com How did you hear about this site? :   the American Profile Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Wonderful site Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Bruce Bothwell E-mail address :   bebdlk@aol.com How did you hear about this site? :   internet, tapsbugler.com Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Very informative site. Info I was looking for to add to my buglers notebook. Im a current BAA member. Retired Lt Col USAF & 534th AF Band enlisted years. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   I played taps at my fathers funeral. I had to keep my mind on something that made me mad. After I finished my final note, then I broke down and wept like a child who had lost his father and security in life. First Name :   LARRY E-mail address :   ALCREATION@AOL.COM How did you hear about this site? :   AFTER HEARING TAPS AT PRES REAGAN FUNERAL I KNEW THAT WORD WERE ASSOCIATED WIT TAPS I SEARCHED THE WEB AND FOUND THIS SIGHT AMONG OTHERS. Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   INTERESTING Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :    First Name :   Deffy E-mail address :   bdeffe@aol.com How did you hear about this site? :   Just surfed in. Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   I had the rate of Buglemster 3/c/ U.S. Navy during World War II. You dont PLAY Taps or other bugle calls. Bugle calls are SOUNDED Bugler...Sound TAPS Bugler SOUND Pay Call; Bugler SOUND SICK Call. Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   Durubg World War II, I was a Buglemaster 3/c U. S. Navy. During the Battle of Leyte Gulf, our ship was sunk, my bugle along with my wifes picture went to the bottom of the Pacific along with our ship. I spent two days drifting in the Pacific before be First Name :   Tami E-mail address :   tamayle@adelphia.net How did you hear about this site? :   Just ran upon it looking for Taps protocol. Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   This is a great, informative site! Very well put together! Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :   My son began playing Taps for events in Grafton, WV when he was in the 7th grade. I listened to him rehearse and rehearse so it would be perfect at WVs only National Cemetery here in Grafton. We consider it an honor when he is asked to play Taps for an ev First Name :   John E-mail address :   jackhager@comcast.net How did you hear about this site? :   E_Mail from a friend regarding President Reagen Comments on this site (limit 250 characters) :   Very well done. Inspiring!! Share your bugle-related stories (or e-mail us) :