A moving history of this simple but powerful song retraces this history of taps through the lives of Americans--young, old, military, and civilian--whose lives were affected by it.
Richard H. Schneider has been a journalist and author for more than fifty years and has written more than twenty books for adults and children. He is a senior staff editor at Guideposts, an interfaith inspirational magazine that reaches an audience of more than twelve million people; a World War II veteran who participated in the Battle of the Bulge; a vice commander of the Rye, New York, Post 128 of the American Legion; and a lay leader of the Rye United Methodist Church. Schneider lives in Rye, New York, with his wife, Betty.