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Ready to perform live taps. chris: so he started his organization recruiting 400 players within a year. >> now we have 6,270 horn players and we are doing 220 funerals a month. chris: it's become operation. runs out of basement in chicago. families can go on website and ask to a bugler and sent within 100 miles of funeral. he gives away bugles while he gets support from foundation, he runs a deficit every year. chris: how do you make up for short fall? >> i kind of make it up myself, 15-$20,000 a year. >> probably 10. you finished, you put the horn down and the flag has been presented then the...

Within a year. >> now we have 6,270 horn players and we're doing 2200 funerals a month. >> reporter: it's become quite an operation. he runs it out of his basement near chicago. families can go on his website to ask for a bugler. a message is sent to every horn player within 500 miles of the funeral. he gives them away and while they get support from a foundation he runs a deficit every year. >> how do you make up for the shortfall? >> i make it up myself. >> 15 $20,000 a year? >> probably 10. >> you finish the last of the 24 notes and put the horn down and the flag has been presented, then th...

Players within a year. >> now we have 6,270 horn players and we're doing 2,200 funerals a month. >> it's become quite an operation. the day runs out of his basement near chicago. families can go on his website. a message is sent to every horn player within a hundreds miles of the funeral. day gives away bugles and helps with uniforms. >> how do you make up for the short fall? >> i kind of make it up myself. 15 $20,000 a year. >> probably ten. you finish the last of the 24 notes, you put the horn down and the flag has been presented. then the family comes over. the kiss, the handshakes from the...

Tom day who played in the marines in '50s didn't like it. >> i call it stolen dignity that these veterans can't get live taps when we are out there ready to perform live taps. >> chris: so he started his organization, recruiting 400 horn players within a year. >> now we have 6270 horn players and we're doing 2200 funerals per month. >> chris: it becomes quite an operation that he runs out of his basement in chicago. families can go on his website to ask for a bugler. a message is sent within a hundred miles of the funeral. he helps with uniforms and gets support from foundations he runs a defi...