For more information, visit and follow Fleet Farm on Facebook and Instagram. The company’s headquarters is in Appleton, Wisconsin. Fleet Farm has 47 stores located across the Midwest. Customers can find fishing, hunting and outdoor products, auto parts, farm and pet supplies, home improvement and household goods, clothing and footwear, toys and food, plus services like gas, car wash and auto repair. Click here for more information and to find a nearby store.įleet Farm has served hardworking Midwestern families since 1955, offering a unique mix of high-quality, value-priced merchandise and services for active, outdoor, suburban and farm communities. The public is invited to attend at their local store. followed by a single bugler who will sound Taps. As part of this National Moment of Remembrance, stores will observe a minute of silence at 3 p.m. “We’re honored to support this event not just by participating, but also by increasing the number of locations where our communities can join together in preserving the legacy of this important American tradition.”įleet Farm and Taps for Veterans have found some of the nation’s best buglers for this year’s event. It offered everyone an opportunity to pause and remember fallen service members in the true spirit of Memorial Day,” said Nick Widi, Chief Retail Operations Officer, Fleet Farm. “Taps Across America brought the country together with a simple, unifying event. The massive, simultaneous event replaced picnics, parades, and other celebrations canceled due to the pandemic. The response was overwhelming: More than 10,000 musicians joined nationwide. The two men invited buglers and musicians to sound Taps from their front porches all at the same time. Taps Across America debuted in 2020 when CBS News “On the Road” correspondent Steve Hartman teamed up with retired Air Force bugler Jari Villanueva, founder of Taps for Veterans. On Monday, May 30, buglers will sound Taps at 3 p.m., at all Fleet Farm stores during “Fleet Farm salutes Taps Across America.” If the player is under 18, CBS will be looking through public posts on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok with the hashtag #CBSTaps to find them.Contact : WISCONSIN - Fleet Farm is once again teaming up with Taps for Veterans to honor fallen soldiers on Memorial Day by participating in the third annual Taps Across America. You can record yourself sounding “Taps” and share the video to the News 6 WKMG/ClickOrlando Facebook page or you can send them to CBS to be potentially featured on “CBS Evening News” by clicking here. A more recent tradition includes plating 'Taps' at that time, CBS2s Aundrea. Monday to remember the true meaning of Memorial Day. Hartman hopes “Taps Across America’' will become a national tradition. NEW YORK - All across the country, musicians paused at 3 p.m. Once again, Hartman is asking musicians to sound those 24 notes Monday, May 31 at 3:00pm sharp local time, so those who hear taps will stop and remember America’s fallen. “Even if they don’t remember I was a journalist, if they remember I had anything to do with starting “Taps Across America,” that’s fine with me. (R): Mayor Bob Joe, James and Lissa Reynolds. PHOTO: Provided by Lissa Reynolds News John Grab (L) plays Taps on Memorial Day. on Memorial Day which was inspired by a segment on the television show Sunday Morning'. It’s a moment so moving he wants all Americans to experience it. Thanks to resident Lissa Reynolds, at least one South Pasadenan participated in a call to play Taps at 3 p.m. And it blew me away, it brought me to tears in the moment,” Hartman says. “What struck me most about that story was not just the playing of the taps, but when the neighbors came out and stood on their balconies, on their porch.
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