Recorded Taps to fill bugler gap at funerals
As veterans age, the Defense Department turns to compact disc recordings to perform Taps when live buglers are unavailable. Congress authorized using recordings. memorial kits have been sent to funeral directors and bases. VA notes occasional local bugler substitutions, with new cemeteries planned as deaths rise.
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Washington
Defense Department
Catherine
Abbott
U.S
Department
Steven Wester
Feld
National Cemetery Administration
Veterans’ Organization
Westerfeld
Daniel Adams Butterfield
Oliver Wilcox Norton
Norton
Arlington National Cemetery
United States Army Band
Woodrow English
English
Sean Reeves
Harmony Memorial Park
Landover
Family seeks DNA tests to identify WWII soldier remains
The Feinstein and Levin families press the Army to exhume three unmarked WW2 remains at Manila’s American Cemetery. DNA testing is sought after learning from a 1948 casualty report that the three crewmen were buried as unidentified in China and later moved to Manila. The family honors Bos and the others while awaiting Army response.
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Manila
Dianne Feinstein
Dcalif
Carl Levin
D-Mich
Department of the Army
Army
Feinstein
Howard Gantman
Director of Mortuary Affairs
Hawaii
Bos
DeFouw
Judy Apodaca
Apodaca
Himalayas
Lookerating
India
Changi
China
Lien San Po
Kunming
Shang
Hai
Chicago
Harv
Standale
Mich
Miss America attends Rolling Thunder rally in Washington
Miss America Heather French travels with rolls of veterans in the Rolling Thunder parade through Washington DC. She attends at the Pentagon parking lot, signs autographs on leather vests, and speaks on behalf of veterans, especially the homeless. Her father is Vietnam wounded, and she campaigns for missing in action and veteran housing.
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Washington
Heather Renee French
Maysville
Vietnam
Ron French
Usc
Pentagon
Rolling Thunder
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall
Memorial Day
Memorial Bridge
Lincoln Memorial
Louisville
Kentucky
Steve Henry
French
Congress
AP Puoro
Bobby Brandon
Brooklyn
N.Y
Jeff Annicelli
Fairfield
N.J
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
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Enid
Bas
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Robert L. Crowder
Edward Winterling
Vague Records
Cotton- Nell Clinic
Nancy Nowlin
Jean Schrader
Charles Yockey
Biltmore Drive
Wakarusa Drive
Legends Drive
Harvard
15Th
Biltmore
Stormont-Vail HealthCare
Spa Pool & Fireside
Vermont St
Lawrence, KS
Reger
Federal Bank Bar
W. 6Th Street
Lawrence
THE
Washington Post
Red Cross
1St Christian Church
Fit Spaen Motors, Inc
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