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Notes from Indian Country
Thank you for your service
Monday, May 31, 2021
Perhaps because it is the Memorial Day weekend, this morning I woke up with the bugle call of “reveille” in my mind.
And then I heard the sound of the Boatswain Mate’s whistle echoing through the address system on the ship. “Reveille, Reveille, up all hands. Heave out, trice up. The smoking lamp is lighted in all authorized spaces.”
Reveille and taps were the two bugle calls that introduced us to our lives in the military. Reveille to wake us up and taps to put us to sleep. But taps was also the mournful bugle call we heard at the funerals of our fallen comrades.
It took me back to a time when we were marching in a driving rain on the grinders of the United States Navy Recruit Depot in San Diego. That early winter of 1952 it rained and it rained. Most of the guys in my company wore out at least two pair of boots in the 3 months we marched in that rain.
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