Day is Done

( Did you know Taps had lyrics. They're under here )

I knew it because, wait for it, my girl scout troop concluded every meeting with it. For. Years. Nothing cheerier to send a bunch of 10 year old girls out into the night with a funeral dirge.

I bring this up because today was my uncle's burial...sort of. Many in my family are military. I already have several relatives in the Cemetery of the Alleghenies and my parents will be there eventually. It was a military funeral with the 3 rounds of gun salute, taps, the honor guard and all that comes with it (a tear jerker of a salute).

But we went from the funeral home to their for this. As we were waiting, my dad (obsessed with rush hour traffic which didn't exist at this point but my cousins DID get caught in construction) mom and I were there first. And in walks Saruman the White. No lie, for a second I thought he was there for a cosplay Renn funeral.

Nope this was the deacon who was going to do the graveside prayers. He was also a doctor. He and I talked for quite some time. Nice man.

We all went out to an Italian restaurant afterward. Because we need more family drama.

But it is now done. Sort of. Because it's military, we don't know exactly where he'll be yet. They bury in batches. Eventually we'll get an email with location.