Talk:Military funeral

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It is a common misconception that Law enforcement and Firefighting personnel get military funerals. This is not true. Law Enforcement and Firfighters are Cilivian Public Service organizations. Even though Law Enforcement and Firefighter personnel sometimes have military style haircuts, wear military style uniforms, and for Law Enforcement, sometimes carry military style weapons for special purposes, and may wish that they were military, they are not. A Military Funeral is reserved exclusively for current and former military personnel that has served their country in the Armed Forces and qualify for it. The Law Enforcement and Firefighting community has copied the military funeral style of service on their own. "Taps" is exclusively a military honor. That is why "Amazing Grace" was adopted by the Law Enforcement and Firefighting communities to be played at the funerals of their fallen comrades (usually on the Bagpipes). Unless the fallen Law Enforcement officer or Firefighter was also current or former military and qualified for the honor, "Taps" should not be played. The Law Enforcement and Firefighting communities have copied the Military Funeral style ceremony, and as long as they wear their respective civilian public service uniforms while performing the ceremony, that is fine. But "Taps" should not be played unless the Law Enforcement Officer or Firefighter was also former military in a capacity that qualified them for that honor. 216.78.39.81 21:34, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Full-honors Funeral

There's been some confusion on other wiki pages (Audie Murphy) about the term "Full-honors Funeral". This term is an official designation [1]. — Gouveia2 (talk) 20:14, 11 March 2008 (UTC)