Military honors
are performed every day,
at gravesites of our veterans
all throughout the USA.
Friends and family gather
to pay their last respect.
And standing by, an honor guard
of comrades to the vet.
A gun salute is fired.
Shots ring out in the air,
in honor of a veteran
who is being buried there.
Then the part that makes the heart
send teardrops to the eyes.
The clear, crisp sound of Taps
echo’s softly through the skies.
It’s sounding bids goodbye
to one of our country’s best,
and there another hero
is, with honor, laid to rest.
