An Army bugler’s story about his special wartime assignment
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An Army bugler’s story about his special wartime assignment
In the final days of World War II, U.S. Army Sgt. Harrison Wright was stationed in a small Belgian village near the German border. He tells his grandson, Sean Guess, about a special assignment in this animated feature from our partners at StoryCorps.
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An Army bugler’s story about his special wartime assignment
Clip: 5/28/2023 | 2m 23sVideo has Closed Captions
In the final days of World War II, U.S. Army Sgt. Harrison Wright was stationed in a small Belgian village near the German border. He tells his grandson, Sean Guess, about a special assignment in this animated feature from our partners at StoryCorps.
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In the final days of World War II, U.S. Army Sergeant Harrison Wright was stationed in a small Belgian village near the German border.
He tells his grandson Sean Guess about a special assignment.
MAN: I was 19-year-old boy and a blue bugle in a outfit.
If a young man is killed in action, or dies defending his country, you blow caps over his grave.
And it just -- there's no way to describe it.
The emotion that you feel knowing that there was notice going out.
And I remember that war was over just a few days and they asked me to blow taps for all who died in the war.
We climbed this high heel, it was like a mountain top and my battalion to bottom now blew blue those taps.
And when I did, the man said it floated out across all it barely and said it was beautiful.
They were all telling me how good it sounded and what a tribute it was to our fallen comrades.
JOHN YANG: Harrison Wright died in 2015 at the age of 91.
For more stories like his, go to storycorps.org.
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