“轻拍，”发布和军事纪念馆

您有没有想过，在军事人员的纪念服务中，Bugle Call“Taps”如何用于如何使用？当我们准备庆祝阵亡将士纪念日时，我认为探讨这种做法开始的事情会很适合。

In an早期的博客文章, I presented the history of “Taps” and discussed evidence that points to the fact that the crew of USS Monitor heard “Taps” being played at some point during July or August of 1862. This post is a continuation of the history of “Taps” and how it became a part of military funerals and memorials.

John C. Tidball曾担任电池A，第二次美国火炮的电池队长，在七天的七天的战斗中，6月25日至7月1日，1862年7月1日。电池A搬到了哈里森在马尔曼山战役之后与剩下的联盟部队着陆。

在哈里森的着陆，他命令下的一个男人死了。Tidball队长将他描述为“一个最优秀的人”。（1）他希望用全民荣誉埋葬他，但被拒绝允许三枪在他的坟墓上的习惯射击。

Tidball队长选择了“轻拍”而不是三枪致敬。这是第一次在军事葬礼上播放“水龙头”。他说，“这个想法是被别人占据，直到整个军队采用的短时间内，现在看看是最合适和触及军事葬礼的部分。”（2）

“Taps”的比赛成为1891年军事葬礼的标准，尽管我认为这是安全的，说它在1891年之前已经过了多年的多年来一直在播放.John Tidball于1906年5月15日去世。他是最后一个幸存的成员of his West Point class of 1848. He was laid to rest with the sounding of “Taps” just as it had been played forty- four years earlier at Harrison’s Landing.

你们中的一些人可能看过这个彩色玻璃window in the Chapel of the Centurion at Fort Monroe. It depicts the playing of “Taps” in 1862. It is a beautiful window, but the first time I saw it I could not understand why it was there. Fort Monroe seems a long way from Harrison’s Landing. I discovered that John Tidball became Commander of the Artillery School at Fort Monroe in 1883 and served there until 1889. The Chapel had been completed in 1858, but several stained-glass windows were designed as part of the centennial celebration in 1958. The commemoration of the playing of “Taps” was one of them.

John Tidball’s daughter, Mabel Tidball, was invited to the centennial celebration in 1958. At the age 83 and living in Charleston, S.C., she was unable to attend the celebration, but requested that “Taps” be performed to remember those who had died in the past 100 years.

2013年，美国国会指定“龙头”作为国家“纪念歌曲”，根据公法112-239，第596条。

如果您在2021年5月31日星期三下午3:00仔细聆听，您可以听到“轻拍”正在播放。这是一部分Taps Across America。但是你庆祝阵亡将士纪念日，请花时间记住这么多的牺牲。我留下了这个“纪念之歌”在专辑中贾里维拉努斯录制了这个“纪念之歌”一天完成：水龙头150周年。

1.尤金C. Tidball，“我国没有耻辱”
（肯特州大学出版社，2002,250。

2.彩球，251。