chris: tom day is talking about playing taps at the funeral of military veterans. and he should know. chris: he s the founder and president of an organization called bugles across america. how many funerals have you done since you started? 200,000 in 10 years. chris: it started back in 2000 when congress gave every vet the right to a funeral with military honors, including two uniformed officers to present a flag and play taps. the problem was, the military only had 500 buglers. so they sent someone to play it on a recorded device. tom day who played in the marines in the 50s didn t like it. i called it stolen dignity that these veterans can t get live taps when we are out there ready to perform live
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of relief that greeted the armistice. the war took a huge toll on new zealand one hundred thousand of its soldiers died during the war . in australia cannon fire and buglers. i want of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. prime minister of the straw to national the prime minister summed up the sentiment at last silence a silence from that day to this that they can sit pray for the dawn of peace and a lasting peace in hong kong two veterans paid tribute to those who felt.
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die every day. each one, unquestionably worthy of having taps played at their funeral. the most haunting 24 notes that a person hears. and played correctly, it can make you cry. unfortunately, today, many veterans are buried in silence. simply not enough buglers to play the patriotic tune. how you doing? i ll be your horn player today. tom day, a bugler, player, and navy veteran founded buglers across america, grieving families enter their zip code into the website and it instantly connects them with the nearest bugler. the nonprofit has 5,000 horn players, age 10 to 95, ready to play nationwide. they ve already played more than 200,000 funerals, aj 2,000 a month. families average 2,000 a
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