[TPIN] Re: Funeral Disaster

[Matt Hilgenberg]

Mark,
I don't know you at all, but this is one of the greatest stories!  I don't know if you play changes, but that's one of the best improvisations I've ever heard of.
Best,
Matt

>Message: 11
>Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 10:31:38 -0400
>From: "Mark Deaton" <mdeaton at ix.netcom.com>
>Subject: RE: [TPIN] Funeral disaster
>To: <tpin at tpin.okcu.edu>
>Message-ID: <011601c8aebc$bac6bb10$30543130$@netcom.com>
>Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="us-ascii"
>
>Air Force days...
>Got lost on the way to the funeral somewhere way back in the woods in rural
>Alabama.  Was getting nervous because I knew I was going to be late.  Dirt
>road... thick woods... I heard the first round of fire way off in the
>distance.  I pulled over.  Jumped out of the car.  Grabbed my horn and
>played taps as loud as I possibly could.  Back on base the sgt. in charge of
>the honor guard said it was the best taps he'd ever heard.  Truly ethereal,
>and haunting, like it was coming from miles and miles away.  I just smiled.
>
>
>Mark Deaton