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The End of Watch Call or Last Radio Call is a ceremony in which, after a police officer's death (usually in the line of duty but sometimes from illness), the officers from his or her unit or department gather around a police radio, over which the police dispatcher issues one call to the officer, followed by a silence, then a second call, followed by silence.
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Henry Allingham in 2007 "Last Post" is a poem written by Carol Ann Duffy, the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, in 2009.It was commissioned by the BBC to mark the deaths of Henry Allingham and Harry Patch, two of the last three surviving British veterans from the First World War, and was first broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 programme Today on 30 July 2009, the date of Allingham's funeral.
Signals that unauthorized lights are to be extinguished. This is the last call of the day. The call is also sounded at the completion of a military funeral ceremony. Taps is to be performed by a single bugler only. Performance of 'Silver Taps' or 'Echo Taps' is not consistent with Army traditions, and is an improper use of bugler assets."
A tale told by the fire-side after Returning to the Vale of Grasmere. Former title: Bore the title of "The Blind Highland Boy. (A Tale told by the Fireside.)" from 1807–1820. "Now we are tired of boisterous joy," Poems referring to the Period of Childhood (1815 and 1820); Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803 1807 October 1803 1803
According to the U.S. Secret Service, he was shot and killed at a Trump rally last week after 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire on Trump and the crowd, injuring the former president ...
The Spirit Level is a 1996 poetry collection written by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.It won the poetry prize for the 1996 Whitbread Awards.
Olive Tilford Dargan was born on January 11, 1869, on a farm in Grayson County, Kentucky.She moved to the southern Ozarks with her parents Elisha Frances Tilford & Rebecca (Day) Tilford, around age eleven and started her work in elementary education.