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The commuters in Excelsior, Minnesota, are too busy rushing to work to notice the lone figure climbing up to old Oak Hill Cemetery.
明尼蘇達州的上班族們正趕著去上班，根本沒有注意到一個長長的身影正爬上老橡樹山的墓地。
He is a tanned, gray-haired man in -khakis and a golf shirt, and he is walking deliberately.
他皮膚黝黑、頭發花白，穿著卡其褲和高爾夫球衫，走路很從容。
Gary -Marquardt spots a grave with an American flag on it, raises his trumpet, and plays.
加里·馬夸特發現墳墓上有一面美國國旗，他舉起小號，開始演奏。
"I love to hear taps echo through the cemetery," he says. "I'm doing something for these guys. It's kind of like being among friends."
“我喜歡聽到葬禮的安息號，”他說。“我在為這些家伙做點什么，就像和朋友在一起。”
Gary will repeat the routine a dozen times over the next 45 minutes: finding a veteran, saying his name, and then playing taps.
在接下來的45分鐘里，加里會重復這個動作十幾次：找一個老兵，說出他的名字，然后吹著葬禮的安息號。
"I always think about the funeral, the people standing around here, so sad at the loss of their loved one,
“我總是想起葬禮，站在這里的人們，為失去所愛而悲傷，
and then it's over and you're left with this," Gary says, looking down at a grave.
一切結束了，剩下的就只有這些。”加里低頭看著墳墓說。
The cemetery visits started three years ago, after Gary attended the military funeral of a friend's father, who had served during World War II.
第一次參加葬禮是在三年前，加里參加一個朋友父親的軍事葬禮，這位父親曾在二戰中服役。
It bothered Gary that a recording was being used for taps and not a live bugler.
加里擔心的是，葬禮的安息號是錄音錄進去的而不是現場演奏的。
"It just seemed that after what they've given, an actual person playing taps wasn't much to ask for," he says.
他表示：“這些人付出了這么多，似乎真人現場演奏的要求并不過分。”
There was only one problem: Gary had never played a bugle.
只有一個問題：加里從未吹過號角。
He called Bugles Across America (BAA), an organization that provides buglers for military funerals.
他給全美軍號打電話，這是一個為軍事葬禮吹號角的組織。
They told him he would need to audition. So he walked into a music store and bought a horn. Then he started to practice.
他被通知需要試音，于是他走進一家音像店，買了一只號角，然后開始練習。
