Michael Morpurgo, author. A child needs to feel from the very start that she or he is wanted and loved. They should grow up in the soil of affection of care. There is no replacement for that, it is the most important thing.
American bugler in the Navy, 1917. The bugle is a very simple brass instrument. It has no valves or other mechanisms, the only way the player has to control the pitch is changing the shape of his lips. This means that only notes from the harmonic series can be played.
It was relatively short. There were prayers, volleys were fired and the service members folded the flag and presented it to the family. The family received the flag and there was taps, Neiberger-Miller, who lives in Purcellville, Va., recalled. It lasted less than a minute, but those notes were incredibly powerful. Taps, a simple 24 notes played on the bugle, has been offered as the final salute to America's fallen ever since the Civil War. But trained military band members who can play the memorial tune, which was designated as the National Song of Remembrance by Congress last year, are in ever shorter supply.