Holland Honors Those Who Died

OldRegular · Dec 26, 2013

I got the following in an email. I was a boy of 10 when the war started. I remember clearly the day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. I remember the men who went off to war. The buses taking them to the induction center always stopped in front of the school for final goodbye. I remember the first casualty from our neighborhood, killed in the Battle of Midway. I remember five brothers who went to war and one who did not come back

I wonder how many American youth similar in age to the young girl featured know about or give a thought about the sacrifice of the men who served in WWII. For that matter I wonder how many Americans care about the sacrifice of the "Greatest Generation".

Comments would be appreciated!

Taps in Holland (for American WWII buried there) - fabulous rendition by 13 yr. old

Subject: FW: : Taps in Holland

A little something wonderful….
With tears in my eyes, I send this to you all, Especially for you that have served.
It's beautiful!!

Watch this young lady's face while she's playing. This is no performance:it's an act of pure, unadulterated reverence. Today's children are wise beyond their years on the planet. Be moved! Be blessed.

TAPS...The Last Post
A few years ago, a friend visited the Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial in the village of Margraten , about six miles from Maastricht . There lie buried 8,301 American soldiers killed in the battles to liberate Holland in the fall and winter of 1944-5. Sgt. Bill Dukeman, 101st Airborne Division, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Second Battalion, Company C (of "Band of Brothers fame) is buried there. He was killed in the battle of "The Crossroads" in northern Holland .

The Dutch hold an annual memorial concert every September at the above cemetery to remember and honor the Americans who died to free them in Operation Market Garden and subsequent efforts to eject the German army from Holland . Sgt. Dukeman, like many other fallen GIs, was "adopted" by a Dutch family. Dukeman's family in the States was contacted and hosted in Holland, and his grave site decorated each year by his Dutch "family." They keep his portrait in their home, displayed in a place of honor. Fathers pass this obligation down to their sons in Holland . This version of the original "taps" music is played by a 13 year old Dutch girl named Melissa Venema. The conductor of the orchestra is Andre Rieu from Holland .

Many of you may never have heard taps played in its entirety . The original version of Taps was called Last Post, and was written by Daniel Butterfield in 1801. It was rather lengthy and formal, as you will hear in this clip, so in 1862 it was shortened to 24 notes and re-named Taps.

Melissa Venema is playing it on a trumpet whereby the original was played on a bugle.

Watch at this site, and go full screen.

http://www.flixxy.com/trumpet-solo-melissa-venema.htm
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ktn4eg · Dec 26, 2013

I remember visiting that cemetery in 1968 when I was with USAFE assigned to the 26th Tac Recon Wing at Ramstein AB in what was then West Germany.

agedman · Dec 29, 2013

Not to take a single item of honor from the fallen and celebrations of their sacrifice, but just to indicate to the thread that the history of the OP is a bit askew.

Click here for probably the most documented history of the development of the "taps" as we know it, today.

OldRegular · Dec 30, 2013

agedman said: ↑

Not to take a single item of honor from the fallen and celebrations of their sacrifice, but just to indicate to the thread that the history of the OP is a bit askew.

Click here for probably the most documented history of the development of the "taps" as we know it, today.
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Then there is this one!

http://www.ibiblio.org/archives-archivists/msg08721.html

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