[willy]

Tsubaki,you and I have a lot in common, as I think many of us on this board do.
As an Army Military Policeman, performing the Flag Ceremony at end of the day, and dozens of Honor Guard assignments, were to this day my most vivid and truly profound moments of my life.
I cannot hear Taps bugled without tears forming.
My fourth trip to Arlington, was as deeply moving as the first if not more so.
it was my absolute honor to perform these ceremonies for men I had never met. They each affected me profoundly.
What you wrote above was beautiful.
The two most haunting and memorable things a man will hear in his life will be Taps performed by an Army Bugler and Ave Maria performed by a Police Bagpipe Honor Guard, especially at a loved ones funeral. And if that loved one is one who served, well when the shots ring out, honorable closure is at hand.