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Taps country as flag
Taps fills the suddenly sacred air
Mournful sound saturates with deep despair
Laden with sweetest pain sorrowed
Touching hearts by respect weighted
Laid beneath mortal sod
Honoring a soul gone home to live with God
Holy Spirit now in veneration
Give loving tribute now with admiration.

Feel their spirit hovering round
Mournful with tenderness the sound
Bitter-sweet with solemn joy
Seeing a heavenly convoy
Sent to carry a soul home
To for life lived atone.
While taps soft and sweet is played
Grown sudden in a garden far away arrayed

Sweet-and-sour memories linger
Taps thickly heavy with honor
Elicited sympathy o'er you rending
Heavenly choir ringing
Cherubic angels singing.
Loving burdened by caring
Silent voices emit the primal scream
All unseen...

Taps sweet melody transcending
From this frail life to the next sending
From mortal existence
Drug through the valley of indifference
Feeling pain and sorrowed innocence
Sent home to God's pure essence
Celebrate the beleaguered soul purified
In this moment by the Almighty sanctified.
By Gary Jacobson
Copyright 2010
Listed October 19, 2010

About Author... In 1966-67, Gary Jacobson served with B Co 2nd/7th 1st Air Cavalry in Vietnam as a combat infantryman and is the recipient of the Purple Heart.

Gary, who resides in Idaho writes stories he hopes are never forgotten, perhaps compelled by a Vietnamese legend that says, "All poets are full of silver threads that rise inside them as the moon grows large." So Gary says he writes because "It is that these silver threads are words poking at me � I must let them out. I must! I write for my brothers who cannot bear to talk of what they've seen and to educate those who haven't the foggiest idea about the effect that the horrors of war have on boys-next-door."

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