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Archive for May, 2026

Memorial Day – “Echo Taps” at Two Ceremonies at Two Locations at Two Times

Posted by glennled on May 28, 2026

Memorial Day Ceremony, Lynnwood, 2026, hosted by VFW Post 1040

I’ve been sounding “Taps” or “Echo Taps” at morning ceremonies every Memorial Day since 2011, but this year for the first time, I also got to do so in the afternoon. As VFW Post 1040 Bugler, I sounded “Echo Taps” with my partner, Eduardo Gomez Luis, at the ceremony at Veterans Park in downtown Lynnwood at 11 a.m. Then at 3:00 p.m., as a member of Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA), Sno-King Chapter 423, I again sounded “Echo Taps” with Eduardo at Floral Hills Cemetery, also in Lynnwood, east of the I-5 freeway. Eduardo is a junior at Lynnwood High School and a trumpeter in the band. I used my Getzen bugle, and Eduardo used his Yamaha trumpet.

And at Veterans Park in the morning, I also sounded two other bugle calls: “Assembly” to call the ceremony to order and “To the Color” as the flag was raised to full mast at noon. What a fulfilling day for this bugler!

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At Veterans Parks, hosted by VFW Post 1040:

Photos by Ashley Nash, My Lynnwood News:

At Floral Hills Cemetery, hosted by VVA Chapter 423:

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I Return to Where I Performed My Very First One-Hour Trumpet Show, Destinations Lynnwood

Posted by glennled on May 26, 2026

Destinatiions Lynnwood, Wall of Honor

On 15 December 2017, I performed “Showtune Favorites,” my very first one-hour trumpet show at my very first retirement community, then called SHAG Lynnwood Center, now Destinations Lynnwood. Rate Tate, a resident, scheduled my first performance anywhere. It was in their Community Room.

On 22 May 2026, eight-and a-half years later and only three days before Memorial Day, I returned to perform “I Stand for the Flag,” comprised of 24 patriotic marches, songs, and bugle calls. I used all five horns—trumpet, pocket trumpet, cornet, flugelhorn, and bugle—and wore my VFW uniform.

It was Happy Hour on a Friday afternoon, outdoors, where the audience sat at tables under umbrellas on a gorgeous day and ate snacks and drank delicious drinks. They sang, they clapped in rhythm, they marched in place, they laughed. I smiled again and again and played till we finished with the Pledge of Allegiance and “The Star-Spangled Banner,” standing and singing with hands over hearts.

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