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I was in the US Navy for 8 years. About the time I'd been in 4 years, my father died. I couldn't listen to taps after hearing it played over my fathers grave and made sure even when aboard a ship, I was inside when taps was blown each evening. It is still the loneliest sound in to world IMHO.
 
When we were kids, we had words to it. It went something like:

Night is come, day is gone
Frome the sea, from the hills, from the sky.
All is well, safely rest.
God is nigh.

I think those words whenever I hear taps.
 
I was in the US Navy for 8 years. About the time I'd been in 4 years, my father died. I couldn't listen to taps after hearing it played over my fathers grave and made sure even when aboard a ship, I was inside when taps was blown each evening. It is still the loneliest sound in to world IMHO.


I get very emotional when I hear it. My dad passed in 1969. The USMC had an honor guard and played taps at the grave site. He also had a Masonic ceremony.
 
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