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Salute to Veterans [5min]

This Veterans Day weekend, solemn renditions of "Taps" will ring out across the country. But this could be a fading sound as "Taps" players are in short supply in the U.S. "Weekend America" hears from World War II veteran Tuck Marcantonio, who averages 150 "Taps" performances a year.
Read entire article at APM "Weekend America"