For Veterans Day

This story was on NBC a while ago. What a great kid.

The 15-year-old Palmer High School sophomore never met Pierce, an 80-year-old widower when he died Aug. 13 in Anchorage. She only knew he was a military veteran and thus deserved to have the traditional "lights out" signal played at his funeral and to have it played by a living, breathing human being.

"I feel our servicemen should be buried with an actual bugler," she said, "not a recording."

A few years ago, she watched a televised veteran's service at which taps was sounded from a boombox. The mechanical music offended her, so she found a battered Civil War-era bugle, taught herself to play it and, at age 11, became the youngest member of Bugles Across America.

ARE YOU A BUGLER?

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT BUGLES ACROSS AMERICA, CONTACT STATE DIRECTOR GENE HORNER AT 1-907-376-3716.

Let us commend with great praise our fallen heroes, those who Serve, and those who attend to them with a selfless heart.

posted by Laura. at 08:49 PM

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