| The finest bugle playing I ever heard was when the Marines buried my father. Taps never sounded so sweet or so mournful to me before or since. Afterwards I approached the Marine bugler and commended him on his playing. He looked shocked and told me that if I could tell him that through my pain and sorrow that it meant much more to him than any praise he'd had before. It made me very glad I had told him so.
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"Do not forget your dogs of war, your big guns, which are the most-to-be respected arguments of the rights of kings."
- Frederick the Great, King of Prussia  |