For One Air Force Vet, Playing "Taps" is a Sacred Duty

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Uploaded on September 11, 2012 by CBS

For the 150th anniversary of "Taps," Mark Strassmann learns what makes those 24 notes so powerful and finds one retired Air Force bugler who is considered the nation's leading authority on the famous final call.

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