[ramseye]

This is the link to the webpage http://www.echotaps.org

[Chi-townChief]

And here I thought it was free beer.

[Velveeta]

That should be something.
Misty-eyed here just thinking about it.

[kingu]

Wish I could be there to see and most importantly, to hear...

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Just wow. O to hear that, as Flanders Field or other war poems scroll by....


It is not the politician who has given us freedom of speech....it is the soldier.....

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks for posting the information and pinging me to it.

Very nice.

[Professional Engineer]

ping

[Calpernia]

There will be at least 800 brass musicians playing TAPS Saturday. This will extend from Elmira-to-Bath, NY; a distance of 41 miles. The first brass musician will begin to play taps at 10 a.m.. Musicians will be stationed every 80 yards and will begin playing an echo on the third note of the previous musician's taps.

[Nik Naym]

I just returned home from this. The NY Guard was heavily involved. We spent the last week marking spots for each bugler over 41 miles of roads, as well as performing other necessary tasks to make this work.
This was a HUGE undertaking. Coordinating the transportation and distribution of what turned out to be approximately 870 musicians over a 41 mile route was quite a challenge. Amateur radio operators provided excellent service, and without their help this simply would not have worked.

Yes, it worked! The echo was tracked by chase vehicles and also by reports from nearly 25 checkpoints manned by amateur radio operators. a few instances of a "false start" popped up in a few spots due to someone deciding to practice, which set of a train of taps echos! We managed to stop these in time to prevent them from ruining the correct, continuous echo thanks to the aforementioned ham radio operators who assisted us.

Many civilian volunteers, the M.A.R.S. amateur radio people, the amateur radio volunteers (over 50 were required and we got them all!) the civil air patrol and various local and state police made this possible. The local citizens were great and treated all of us in uniform like gold the whole week.

Several Volunteer Fire departments also stepped up, providing manpower, route safety during the event, and most importantly providing us with places to set up operation centers, and a place to stay.

I want to mention in particular the East Corning, NY Volunteer Fire Co. which hosted my unit. We were literally given the keys to the facility, and were encouraged to use anything and everything we needed as we actually lived there for a week. Several of the Department's members were always dropping in to see if we needed anything, and were always seeking to do more to make us feel at home. A great bunch of folks!

Sorry for the disjointed rambling report. I have been going for the last week with only a couple of hours sleep each night, just got home, and have yet to even unpack the car. I still have after action reports to write before I can go get some sleep. Ugh!

Nik

[Ciexyz]

Kudos to all involved in this musical memorial.