Memorial Day's purpose is one of remembrance for the country's fallen soldiers, and there's one man who strives to make every day that special. abc7davidono has his story. memorialday
HONOLULU -- Memorial Day's purpose is one of remembrance for the country's fallen soldiers, and there's one man who strives to make every day that special.
"Buglers have a saying for those 24 notes: the bugler is the most important man in the United States military, more important than any general, any admiral, any president," said Stallins on a rainy day in Honolulu, Hawaii, as he visited the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific."For those 24 notes, a family will never forget, they'll forget everything else about a funeral service, but they will never forget those notes.
"The explosion actually ran below decks and literally, within a second, they lost 1,100 men," he said."I mean, just like that. Gone. This is 25 of the men that they lost that day."The very first grave was his father's.
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