military veterans. and he should know. he s the founder and president of an organization called bugles across america. how many funerals have you done since you started? 200,000. really? in ten years. 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 is the military only had 500 buglers. tom day who played in the marines in the 50s didn t like it. i call it stolen dignity. that these veterans can t get live taps when we are out there ready to perform live taps. so he started his organization recruiting 400 horn
military veterans. and he should know. he s the founder and president of an organization called bugles across america. how many funerals have you done since you started? 200,000. really? in ten years. 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 is the military only had 500 buglers. tom day who played in the marines in the 50s didn t like it. i call it stolen dignity. that these veterans can t get live taps when we are out there ready to perform live taps. so he started his organization recruiting 400 horn
he s the founder and president of an organization called bugles across america. all told how many have you 200,000 in ten years. right. it started back in 2000 when congress gave every family the right to a military honor at a fun funeral. the problem is the military only had 500 buglers so they sent someone to play it on a boom box inside of a bugle. tom who played in the 50s didn t like it. i call it stolen dignity, that these veterans can t get live taps when we are out there ready to perform live taps. reporter: so he started his organization. including 400 horn players
including two uniformed officers to present plags and play taps. the problem was the military only had 500 buglers. so they sent someone to play a recorded taps on a boom box or an electronic device inside a bugle. tom day who played for the marines in the 50s. i call it in stolen dignity, that these veterans can t have live taps when we were out there to perform live taps. so he started his organization, relayers within a we have 260 horn players. we re doing 2,200 funeral a month. it becomes quite a an operation that day runs from his office. families can get on his website to ask for a bugler. a message is sent to every
congress gave every vet the right to a funeral with military honors. the problem was the military only had 500 buglers. so they sent someone to play a recorded task on a boom box or an electronic device inside a bugle. tom day who played for the marines in the 50s. so he started his organization, recruiting 400 horn players within a year. we have 260 horn players. it becomes quite a an operation that day runs from his office. a message is sent to every horn player within 100 miles of