So sad that a post about one of the militaries most sacred traditions is nothing more to you than a chance to spout off your political ideology. Have you no shame man?
The military and many vet organizations are working very hard to give each vet a decent farewell. As stated we are losing our vets at the rate of 15 to 18 hundred every day. Included in that roll call of vets are many of the buglars that were there before to honor their comrades.
When or if you ever attend such a ceremony and are moved by it, you need to be aware of the many hours these honor gaurds spend practicing. The vetern organization honor gaurds are formed by the members of the organization often at their own expense donating their time and money to honor their comrades, and in so many cases their friends.
No there isn't anything really like a live buglar and a firing squad to render honors. Taps played on a boom box isn't the same. I've heard the electronic bugal and it is close, very close. My post lost it's buglar several years ago, a pearl harbor survivor. I doubt very much if he would mind if we had used one of the electronic bugals as we had no buglar and had to resort to a boom box. The pity as he had played for so many others.
I'm in my late fifties now, on oxygen and many of my brother vets aren't much better off. But stand we will, in the hot sun or in the snow, stifly at attention as we can manage, many with tears in our eyes to honor our comrades, our brothers, our friends.