Author: McKinley Corbley / Source: Good News Network
It’s never too late to pay your respects to the fallen – and for Gary Marquardt, that meant learning to play the trumpet at 66 years old.
Marquardt was just a youngster when he enlisted in the military and waited to be drafted for the Vietnam War.
Due to a bleeding ulcer, however, he was deemed unfit to serve.Years later, he finally found a means of atoning for his guilt over not being able to fight alongside his fellow soldiers.
In 2014, Marquardt had been attending the funeral of a military friend when he was stunned to hear a mechanical recording of a bugle playing taps. He couldn’t help but be bothered by the lack of live music to honor a fallen soldier – so he walked into a music store and started learning to play the trumpet.
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