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Remembering Our Fallen![]() Delivering Your RemembrancesDuring the “National Memorial Day Concert” each year, we invite audience members to submit a remembrance, eulogy, prayer or poem in honor of friends and loved ones who have made the ultimate sacrifice. Each year after the concert, we carefully read every single one of the submitted messages. Your remembrances are deeply moving and inspire us to continue producing the “National Memorial Day Concert.” Thank you. Remembrance Ceremonies
At each location we conduct a remembrance ceremony including:
On a cold but beautiful day in November, 2008, we swere honored when LTC Frank Murphy (Ret.) attended our Washington, DC ceremonies. Frank is a veteran who served as a First Lieutenant in the Korean Conflict (453d Engineer Battalion, Company A) and did two tours during the Vietnam War, first as a Major and then as a Lieutenant Colonel (1st Special Forces Group, primarily in the Delta area).
At the conclusion of the Korean Memorial ceremony, a visitor emerged from the crowd and introduced himself. Born in South Korea, he now researches Alzheimer’s Disease at MIT. While traveling in Washington he made time to visit the Memorial because he felt his life opportunities, particularly his education, had largely been possible due to the valor and service of American soldiers who fought in Korea. He asked to personally thank the Korean War veterans among us for their service. As providence would have it, Frank Murphy had been stationed in Taegu, this gentleman’s home village. The moving, remarkable encounter of these two men elevated the already meaningful day, reminding us of why we hold the remembrance ceremonies each year. Frank Murphy said of the day: The Story of “Taps”
Today, whenever an American is buried with military honors anywhere in the United States, the ceremony concludes with the firing of three volleys of musketry over the grave and the playing of taps, a singularly beautiful tune, melancholy, yet full of peace. Click below to hear a lone bugler play taps, in a solemn performance at the 2011 “National Memorial Day Concert.”
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