Taps across America

Rance · Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 4:57 am Post subject: Taps across America

Not one mention of this? Too „beneath” you all?

HillBilly Joe · Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 5:16 am Post subject:

Welcome to the community. Super inspiring first post.

I would gather that noone felt like bragging about their rendition of taps. It's in honor of the fallen heroes, not about slapping yourself on the back.
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markp · Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 5:17 am Post subject:

I played Taps twice yesterday at different ceremonies, smart guy. Dozens of my friends and acquaintances from all over the country participated and posted on Facebook.

Taps shaming? Really?

A friendly reminder beforehand may have been more welcome than a chastising after the fact.

SSmith1226 · Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 6:46 am Post subject: Re: Taps across America

kehaulani · Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 7:44 am Post subject:

Redefines snarky.
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Croquethed · Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 7:50 am Post subject:

Just because one plays the trumpet doesn't mean one should feel obligated to -play Taps on Memorial Day.

If somebody asks you to play for a ceremony, by all means honor the request. As for me, the day was full of chores and it got away from me and I didn't get the horn out of the case at all. I did, however, think of my wife's great-uncle, who was killed in the Meuse-Argonne offensive of 1918, and True Smith, an 18-year-old from Michigan who died of disease in Murfreesboro, Tenn., in 1865, and through them all those who gave their lives.

How one commemorates the day is nobody's business.

jhatpro · Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 9:13 am Post subject:

I played at 3 from our front porch. Thought about my grandmother’s brother, lost in 1945 on the USS Somerville. About my own brother, shot down over the Gulf of Tonkin in 1975. About one of my son’s West Point classmates, blown up in his helicopter in Iraq in 2005. And about the 100,000 lost to Covid-19.

And, no, it wasn’t beneath me to play.
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rpoutan · Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 12:01 pm Post subject:

I thought the Taps Across America was a great idea. I participated as well as several of my friends who play the trumpet. This gives a lot of people an opportunity to hear Taps played live. I hope this becomes an annual tradition for honoring those who have died for our country.

John Mohan · Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 3:18 pm Post subject:

WxJeff · Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 3:36 pm Post subject:

Good on ya, John. Great story and thanks for getting up! I worked graveyard shift (only 8 hours tho) for many years and being lucid midday was always a challenge.

cgaiii · Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 5:21 pm Post subject:

Seems there are two threads on this subject.
I played at the little cemetery on my property where four WWII Vets and one WWI vet are buried. I too thought of others lost, my father's brother in WWII, friends and fathers of friends in Vietnam, all those suffering the horrors of more modern warfare.
Some of my neighbors showed up and from that location sound travels down the valley.
National Moment of Remembrance, great idea.
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pinstriper · Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 7:25 pm Post subject:

OP brings up an important topic.

That topic is "why doesn't TH have an 'ignore' feature ?"
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bike&ed · Heavyweight Member Joined: 24 Dec 2004 Posts: 1837

I participated, played it on the front porch like probably many others. I had just played Taps for for my grandfather, a WWII vet, a few days earlier, so it was emotional and cathartic.

StartingUpAgainAt53 · Posted: Thu May 28, 2020 10:02 pm Post subject:

I played taps on my 2nd floor porch at 3 pm. Didn't post to Facebook or anywhere else until now. Played it on the trumpet my father played in Navy Bands during WWII. Will probably do it every memorial day until I cannot play anymore...

zaferis · Posted: Fri May 29, 2020 3:40 am Post subject:

No "participation awards" for sounding taps!

It's not about you. or me
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cgaiii · Posted: Fri May 29, 2020 6:05 am Post subject:

Craig Swartz · Posted: Fri May 29, 2020 6:19 am Post subject:

I played from the end of my dock on the lake at 3. Just before, at 2:55, I played the national anthem with a good sized flag flying there. Peope around seemed appreciative.