taps – Ruth E. Hendricks Photography

Memorial Day Compendium

Watching her father as Taps played- 2016 Memorial Day Etna, PA

A Day of Remembrance- Originally blogged May 31, 2010 Reblogged in 2016

Screen Shot 2017-05-28 at 9.46.08 PM Muskingum County World War II/Korean War Memorial Zanesville, Ohio

Family members plant flowers, trim grass, pull a few weeds, decorate graves of loved ones with wreaths.

One time Mary and I scrubbed lichen off the granite with our toothbrushes. I saw a watering can hang from a spigot, a metal pipe in the ground.

Boy Scouts place American flags by white marble veterans’ graves.

I remember when Bill played taps and as the clear notes sounded, the wind kicked up, blew swirls of dust and leaves, the sky got dark. And we all felt a shivering chill.

Each helmet bears a soldier’s name.

Memorial Day 2013 Guest Blog by son Mark Memorial Day 2013 Guest Blog by son Mark

Screen Shot 2017-05-28 at 9.56.32 PM — Photo by Mary upstate NY

Screen Shot 2017-05-28 at 9.56.42 PM — Photo by Mary from upstate NY

Screen Shot 2017-05-28 at 9.54.58 PM — Neighbor’s Memorial Flags for Each War

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Screen Shot 2017-05-28 at 9.55.17 PM — Poppy

from Memorial Day 2014

Twenty four notes. Taps.

The Origin of Taps, The Bugler’s Cry by “Jari Villanueva, a former ceremonial bugler at Arlington National Cemetery”

from Memorial Day post 2015 Poppies for Disabled Veterans Assistance Programs

May they all rest in peace and may we never rest until we make peace last.
Thanks for this, Ruth. Too many helmets!
Love, L

Here is a link to Lois’ obituary 2013

May 26, 2019May 26, 2019 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: American Flags, Armed Forces, memorial, Memorial Day, photography, Pittsburgh PA, poppy, postaday, taps, WW II, Zanesville OH 19 Comments

Memorial Day 2013

May 27, 2018May 27, 2018 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Arlington Cemetery, Arlington VA, Armed Forces, guest blog, In Flanders Field, Marine Memorial, Memorial Day, military statue, poppy, reblog, silhouette, taps, US Flag, USMC 5 Comments

Etna Memorial Day Ceremony 2016

I was invited to attend the Etna Memorial Day Ceremony at 7:30 AM today.

Mary Ellen’s mother’s home is on High Street in Etna next to this hillside cemetery. Her grandmother hostessed the party decades before. Our hostess today was Ruth Gubanic. She continues the tradition in memory of her brothers. She had three brothers who served: two in WWII and one in the Korean War. She honors all three on Memorial Day. Their names are Will, Eddie and Rayme.

All of the Veterans’ names will be added after the initial post because I don’t want to mess up spelling or misidentifying anyone…but I also know they are eager to see some of the photographs from today. I have created a separate Etna Memorial Day Parade album on Flickr and as soon as it is edited a bit, I will post that link as well.

It was an honor and a privilege to document the ceremony today.

You can see our gracious hostess Ruth in the front row.

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The Grand Marshall of the Parade -Jim Oehling

During the ceremony there was a “flyover”- of honking geese

Wreath Laying

This gentleman is Rick Stefanick, and he is going to help me identify all the other participants with their correct names. Thank you, Rick.

Jim Brokenbek (l) from Post 106 and Rick Stefanick.

Friends for more than forty years, ready to march in the parade.

Richard Hudak is the Firing Squad Master

Mary Ellen and her mother Ruth

For a few more photos, here is a link to the Flickr Album

https://www.flickr.com/gp/ruth_e/V7Uj2A

May 30, 2016May 30, 2016 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Armed Forces, celebration, cemetery, Etna PA, Etna VFW, flyover, Korea, memorial, Memorial Day, military, music, parade, remembering, taps, veterans, Vietnam, wreath laying, WW2 14 Comments

Memorial Day 2014 Photos from Upstate New York- Guest Blog

Across the nation there were parades, memorial services, taps sounding in cemeteries, and specific names of friends and family on Facebook, asking for us to remember a lost friend, family member and soldier.

I received these two photos from my sister where she is visiting friends, south of Albany.

Mark’s birthday was today so his tribute was up for most of the 26th but didn’t want Memorial Day to pass without a post acknowledging it.

Thanks Mary.

Some of the service member names engraved in bricks.

A wreath placed by the memorial stone.

Twenty four notes. Taps.

The Origin of Taps, The Bugler’s Cry by “Jari Villanueva, a former ceremonial bugler at Arlington National Cemetery”

(General Daniel Butterfield- July 1862)

May 26, 2014 by Ruth Categories: Guest Blog, PhotographyTags: Armed Forces, Bethlehem NY, bugle call, General Daniel Butterfield, holiday, Jari Villanueva, Memorial Day, music, origin of Taps, photography, postaday, remembrance, taps, tribute 5 Comments

JFK Gravesite Photos via My Son Mark

These photos of the children at the JFK gravesite were on a hard drive but my son Mark found them tonight. They were to accompany the JFK post on November 22nd. He said to me on the phone, when I was considering whether to post them or not, “Mom, it’s still fifty years”.

I have some of my first photos from February 1964 of the JFK grave as I traveled there from New Jersey to Washington DC with my parents when there was a little white picket fence and snow. I’ll have to dig in a box in the bottom of an upstairs closet to find those

Mark said all four of the kids were especially quiet and pensive as they stood by the graves. Here are the photos he took.