Origin of TAPS in Tribute to American War Dead of All Wars - For God and Country: Standing as a lasting tribute to the twenty-four notes and those who have answered the clarion call to duty.

There is something singularly beautiful and appropriate in the music of this wonderful call. Its strains are melancholy, yet full of rest and peace. Its echoes linger in the heart long after its tones have ceased to vibrate in the air. - O. W. Norton