In the US military, which song is typically played at funerals?
Correct answer: Taps
Player #7929563
To all those who have served in the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard, National Reserve...I, personally, am grateful to you for protecting us! Thank you!! 🇺🇲
poopeater2017
Taps was played at my dad's funeral. Thank you to all who serve.
GreyishOccupation2
day is done..gone the sun..from the lakes, from the hills, from the sky..all is well, safely rest..GOD US NIGH.
Bulldogsmomma
VelourBanjoPlayer141, Thank you for your service and for your protection of all we love.
Cocoa007-69
Did 20 year in the Army. We aren’t supposed to cry. My heart has to😭
SusieQ051284
The saddest sound during the funeral of President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
Player #1987515
VelourBanjoPlayer141, my dad was Army. 4 30 every weekday afternoon it would play on loud speakers all over post. drivers had to pull over get TV out an salute
LuvMyBoxer
lily 21, Always makes me cry.
Alice
VelourBanjoPlayer141, Thank you for your service!
Pchblsom
Player #7929563, And to the families that sacrificed such!!
kronik
you get up and start tap-dancing when they play Taps...that would go over like a faht in church.
DJH
God bless our military and my grandson Jacob.
Player #120374466
GreyishOccupation2, Beautiful words. Cemetery is a French word meaning a resting or sleeping place.
Freebird
Cocoa007-69, Thank you! Hugs
Tony
SusieQ051284, Very touching remark.
R.J
I’m very smart you know
Player #95621408
donna, My husband’s funeral was held in the open air rostrum at Andersonville National Cemetery and the sound of the bugle playing “Taps” over the grounds are still the most hauntingly beautiful
notes I’ve yet experienced.
ace
Thanks to all armed Force, for the freedom as we know it now.
Kathye
To All Military Service Men And Women who Fight and Protect Our Country (America/U.S.A.) THANK YOU!!
donna
Player #1987515, I have those very fond memories of the same things that you described. I was born on Macdill Air Force Base in Tampa Florida.
They played taps at my dad's funeral too... sad sad sound but it made me so proud !
Player #64546021
I am in my 60's and started playing Taps at 18 yrs old at a Arm Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Va. I've played for friends family and complete strangers and although I served in the army and navy and are retired now my dad and my uncle were the 2 hardest I ever had to do god bless all the Ukrainian people who are dying my Taps to them and their Army
Iris
GreyishOccupation2, 😪😭
Kel
I have heard it played many times! Never once did I hear a bad note! It really is a shame that of all the words in the English language, THANK YOU! Just doesn't seem to be enough! TO ALL THE WOMAN AND MEN WHO HAVE SERVED AND ARE SERVING!!! ALL MY HEART IN SAYING. THANK YOU!!!!
Zizzlestix
The saddest song I have ever heard during 2 years of combat operations in Iraq. Rest in peace brothers and sisters 🇺🇲
Tugboat
and lost in Beirut, and Grenada. Some of the Marines I hung around with. So when I hear taps at Funerals, I get emotional
Tugboat
Definitely will bring tears. I get emitional as well. Especially when hearing the buggle, and thinking about the men I served with,
K💕tty
saddest song ever.
Jenn Cronin
Cocoa007-69, You aren't kidding, brother! I was a Combat Medic in Afghanistan.
Sgt. Cronin
Player #13023389
I was in the Honor Guard during my time with my 3rd husband. It always brings a tear to my eye.
Player #9762985
I remember singing this at night at Girl Scout camp.
RappingRaven6959
I also add my thanks to the armed forces 💪. I have many family members who are vets 💯👊
meldawg
SusieQ051284, A 21 gun salute is heart-wrenching as well.
Player #14497755
Heartfelt Thanks to all who served !!
Player #1856199
Player #7929563, Thank you for protecting our beautiful, wonderful oil companies. They destroy our world with greed and pollution. Thank God for their sacred service. Praise Jeebus for Hurricane Katrina and thank Mother Mary for being up in the sky with Nana and Poppop. Yay!
AuspiciousLlama40851
I was to quick
maggiemylove
GreyishOccupation2, That's how I learned it in Girl Scouts. We used it when we took the flag down in the evening.
RestrictedKestrel1
VelourBanjoPlayer141, thank you for your service!