Glenn (Taps) and Robert (Echo)
It was the same this year but not the same. Same national holiday, same place, same participating organizations, same order of events, etc. But when it came to 
sounding “Echo Taps,” this was the first time that one of my trumpet students, Robert, was ending his senior year in high school and planning to attend college in the fall. Farewell to Inglemoor High School in Kenmore and hello to Washington State University in Pullman–a big leap for a young man!
This is the second time he sounded “Echo Taps” with me at this place–please see my post of 19 June 2014. For more about Memorial Day, please see my posts of 18 August 2015, 1 June 2013, 2 June 2012, and 3 June 2011 in the Archives (left).
All photos by Nancy MacDonald unless otherwise marked. Please click on any photo to enlarge it.
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- Martin Spani, USMC (Ret.), Master of Ceremonies
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- “Welcome,” by Nicola Smith, Mayor, City of Lynnwood
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- “God Bless America,” Northwest Jr. Pipe Band, Kevin Auld, Director
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- Jim Smith, former Lynnwood City Councilman, sang “Ballad of the Green Berets” and “America the Beautiful”
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- Myra Rintamak, escorted by Frank Martinez, lays the Gold Star Mothers’ Wreath
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- Glenn Ledbetter, “Echo Taps,” 5-25-’15. Photo by Janelle Squires.
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- Glenn Ledbetter sounds “Echo Taps” on Getzen Field Trumpet (bugle)
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- Glenn, Robert, and his parents
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- Three relatives…
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- Comrades gather around the flag
Glenn's Trumpet Notes 