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STORIES FROM AMERICA'S CONFLICTS
Eulogies DeliveredDuring the National Memorial Day Concert each year, we invite audience members to submit a eulogy, remembrance, prayer or poem in honor of friends and loved ones who have made the ultimate sacrifice. The nationwide response is always overwhelmingly emotional for those of us who produce the concert. Remembrance CeremoniesAs promised in the televised concert, each year around Veterans Day, we visit the World War II Memorial, the Korean War Veterans Memorial, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery (for the fallen buried there and for those who have fallen in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan). At each location the remembrance ceremony includes:
Frank Murphy said of the day: The Story of “Taps”Almost everyone is familiar with the haunting melody of “Taps,” but few know the story of its origin. During the Civil War, in July 1862, when the Army of the Potomac was in camp, Brig. Gen. Daniel Butterfield summoned his brigade bugler to his tent. Butterfield, who disliked the colorless “extinguish lights” bugle call then in use, whistled a new tune and ask the bugler to sound it for him. After repeated trials and note changes, the call was finally arranged to suit Gen. Butterfield’s taste and was used for the first time that night. The call soon spread to other units of the Union Army as well as to those of the Confederates. Taps was made an official bugle call after the war. 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. |
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LTC Frank Murphy (Ret.) and Reverand Steve Hyde deliver viewer eulogies to the Vietnam Wall.
REFLECTIONS “This remembrance is in honor of CPT Jack Dove, United States Air Force. Jack and I grew up together in Bluefield, VA. On July 12, 1967, Jack and I were both in Vietnam. I was safe and sound and Jack was shot down and MIA. He was almost to the magic number of missions needed to send him home. Jack left a young wife and a one year old daughter. May God bless them all.” Randolph W. Walker
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