Word: bugler
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...lumpy overseas kit he had personally lugged from New York to Britain and back had been picked up and carried for him. He had been driven to the hotel, registered and roomed like a guest. He had heard someone say that there would be no formations, that the first bugler who sounded his trump would be exiled...
...forthright aversion to walking drove Harris into the air. He was 22, spending a happy interlude on a family friend's tobacco farm in Southern Rhodesia, when World War I broke out. Arthur Harris enlisted in the First Rhodesian Regiment of Infantry, served first as a bugler, and (as he later told it) walked across Africa to fight the Germans. Swearing that he would never walk again if any other form of locomotion was available, he went back to England and joined the R.A.F.'s predecessor, the Royal Flying Corps, in 1915. He won the Air Force Cross...
...varieties of Protestants. Flowers were arranged on the mounds of earth, the chaplains lined up in the aisle between the two lines of graves with the firing squad on their left, the officers on their right. . . . The firing squad then fired the required number of volleys, and then the bugler sounded taps...
...keep us strong in the courage that will win the war, and may He impart to us the wisdom and the vision that we shall need for true victory in the peace which is to come. ..." He stood at silent attention before the tomb of the Unknown Soldier; a bugler sounded taps; a cold autumn wind scattered the notes down the valley that leads to the Potomac...
Mess Matters. At Camp Adair, Ore., Major Hosiah J. Osborn, assistant commandant of the 9th Service Command School for Bakers & Cooks, came out against K.P. duty as punishment, branded it injurious to the dignity of the kitchen. At Gowen Field, Idaho, the bugler, woolgathering, pursed his lips at 11 p.m. for taps, blew the wrong call, sent some 5,000 men scrambling for the mess hall...