Stories about "Taps"
MAY 26, 2007 Listen to this Story
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Mike McCann is a pretty ordinary 14-year-old. He's in 8th grade in Upton, Mass. Except that, sometimes on schooldays, while his classmates are in algebra or P.E., Mike stands coffin-side and plays "Taps" at military funerals. It all started a few years ago when he played the traditional military song at his grandfather's funeral. His grandfather served in World War II. After Mike finished, there wasn't a dry eye in the room.When he learned there is a shortage of brass players to perform taps live at military burials, her stepped up to the task.
Then...
There's a story that "Taps" was first performed when a Union soldier found the notation for it in a pocket of a dead Confederate soldier that turned out to be his son. But Weekend America's Sean Cole finds out this isn't quite the real deal and investigates the origin of "Taps."
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- Music Bridge:
- Older Summers
- Artist: Portastatic
- CD: Who Loves the Sun (Merge)
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