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Nothing, no amount of money who could ever buy the feeling that i get from the family once i finish the 24 notes. chris: with soldiers killed in iraq and afghanistan plus 1800 veterans of world war ii dying every day, there is a flood of military funerals. he wants to keep going until he dies then leave organization in solid shape to carry on. >> i want every family to have live taps at that going away preparation of their veteran and it kind of tells the marines who are guarding the gates in heaven, live taps, we are going to let this veteran right in. >> he has a lot more help now too, since...

Nothing, no amount of money who could ever buy the feeling that i get from the family once i finish the 24 notes. chris: with soldiers killed in iraq and afghanistan plus 1800 veterans of world war ii dying every day, there is a flood of military funerals. he wants to keep going until he dies then leave organization in solid shape to carry on. >> i want every family to have live taps at that going away preparation of their veteran and it kind of tells the marines who are guarding the gates in heaven, live taps, we are going to let this veteran right in. >> he has a lot more help now too, since...

Nothing, no amount of money who could ever buy the feeling that i get from the family once i finish the 24 notes. chris: with soldiers killed in iraq and afghanistan plus 1800 veterans of world war ii dying every day, there is a flood of military funerals. he wants to keep going until he dies then leave organization in solid shape to carry on. >> i want every family to have live taps at that going away preparation of their veteran and it kind of tells the marines who are guarding the gates in heaven, live taps, we are going to let this veteran right in. >> he has a lot more help now too, since...

I get from the family once i finish the 24 notes. >> with soldiers killed in iraq and afghanistan plus 1,800 veterans of world war ii dying every day, there is a flood of military funerals. day says he wants to keep going until he dies. then leave his organization in solid shape to carry on. >> i want every family to have live taps at that going away presentation of their veteran, and it kind of tells the marines guarding the gates in heaven, live taps, we're going to let this veteran right in. >> since we first ran this story six years ago tom day's organization has grown to more than 7,000 a...

Horn player within 100 miles of the funeral. day gives away bugles and helps with uniforms. while they get support from foundations, he runs a deficit every year. >> how do you make up for the short fall? >> i kind of make it up myself. >> $15,000, $20,000 a year? >> probably $10,000. you finish the last of the 24 notes you put the horn down, the flag has been presented, the family comes over, the kisses, the hand shakes from his families, there is nothing, no amount of money could ever buy the feeling that i get from the family once i finish the 24 notes. >> with soldiers killed in iraq and a...