"TAPS"

"TAPS" There's quite a list of bugle calls, for many different things. Yet none but one conveys the mood that "TAPS" so softly brings. Those notes would total twenty-four, a very simple music score, but oh it's haunting melody, would leave a lasting memory. When troops first heard those stirring notes, played for a fallen cannoneer, they felt emotion and were moved, and many even shed a tear. Played slowly in the key of C , it has a certain majesty. It makes one ponder and reflect, a time to pay our deep respect. The North and South had gone to war, because of slavery, Yet both would use this bugle call, on that they would agree.........