Bugles Across America and Vietnam Marine Corps veteran Peter Gasiewicz had to be at a military funeral in Bergen County to play “Taps” the morning of June 22. So he would not be able to attend the Belleville Historical Society’s dedication that day of a headstone fabricated for Civil War veteran James Sloane at Bloomfield Cemetery. Sloane died 100 years ago in July 1924 and was buried with no headstone. Gasiewicz , however, slipped into the cemetery alone that morning two hours before the scheduled ceremony, to play “Taps’ alongside Sloane’s grave.
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