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From: "Grant" <>
Subject: Re: [WASH] Re: PAWASHIN-D Digest V03 #204
Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 08:10:55 -0400
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Taps, Many are the days that I listened to Taps. Then as now it can bring
tears. Memories of friends and comrades. Days of life and of sadness. The
source of the song I did not know. The words I knew were few. Grant
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Subject: [WASH] Re: PAWASHIN-D Digest V03 #204


> Larry brought up the correct version of TAPS, from information I've
obtained
> from the Veterans Affairs for the State of California. The version they
play
> at the CA National Cemeteries, and the V.A. Homes:
>
> Day is done,
> Gone the sun,
> >From the hills, from the lake(s),
> from the sky.
> All is well, safely rest,
> God is Nigh.
>
> There are actually 4 or 5 stanzas to "TAPS", but they only play ONE! I've
> never heard it "sung", but these are the proper words. I like to keep a
copy in
> my wallet, to look at when I hear TAPS.
>
> Robert D. Mollenauer, Jr.
> Ridgecrest, CA
> (not a Vet, but my dad was in the Battle of the Bulge in WWII, and is
buried
> at Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside, CA)
>
>
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