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Your Heritage - the National Song of Remembrance


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Today is Memorial Day. About an hour ago, thousands of musicians across the continental US completed a rolling sounding of Taps, each playing at precisely 3:00 PM, local time. Jari Villanueva, with the help of the folks at the CBS Evening News, organized "Taps Across America".

If you are reading this, you have some connection to the drum corps activity, probably as a performer at some point or currently. The bugle is your heritage and Taps its most iconic call, having been designated the National Song of Remembrance by the US congress only a couple of years ago, at the urging of the aforementioned Sgt. Villanueva who had sounded that call over 5,000 times at Arlington.

This designation was just a formality, of course, recognizing the function the 24-note melody had been serving since General Butterfield and his bugler, Oliver Wilcox Norton, created it in 1862.

What has this to do with you? Everything. The bugle is the very foundation of the activity in which we all share. Should you wish to acknowledge that, and providing it's not after 10:00 PM where you are, pick up an instrument (any instrument) and sound those 24 notes. It's honoring our fallen heroes on this Memorial Day, and echoing all the others who have rendered that call all across the country.

 

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Very thoughtful post. Thank you for sharing. 

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