Word: bugler
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...their heads wrapped in shawls, begin to perch on the steps leading to the theater. Bands of youths, sometimes unruly, wave the orange-red-and-blue Armenian flag, which last flew over the region when it was a free republic in 1920. Later, at about 7:30, a lone bugler approaches a microphone and plays a melancholy tune. When the last note dies, the crowd breaks into a chant: "Artsakh! Artsakh!" -- the historic Armenian name for Nagorno-Karabakh...
...just on a roll," said wing David Bugler, who scored both Crimson trys. "We're having a tough time doing anything wrong right...
...James H. Polk, 75, now a horse farmer from El Paso, who retired with four stars after commanding the U.S. Army in Europe from 1967 to '71. His earliest recollections are of horses and Army encampments. He was a small boy, he remembers, living here at Riley, when the bugler blew officers' call at lunchtime one day. His father, a young lieutenant, was on a train two hours later, heading toward Mexico to chase < Pancho Villa with General John J. Pershing's 1916 punitive expedition. "He never had time to change clothes, and we didn't see him again...
...senseless military mishap and a puzzling American role in a faraway war had somehow combined to cost the lives of 37 sailors trapped in their bunks aboard the U.S.S. Stark. "Americans today," the President noted, "know the price of freedom in this uneasy world." And then, once again, a bugler played taps...
...General Johannes Steinhoff, 71, a former Luftwaffe ace--they walked a path encircling the headstones, then stopped at a gray wall, where four German soldiers attended two tall wreaths. The two Americans and the two Germans simultaneously approached their separate wreaths. Then they stepped back as a German military bugler sounded a German tribute to lost soldiers, I Once Had a Comrade. Kohl and Reagan met some relatives of German soldiers who opposed Hitler and then passed German and U.S. military honor guards...