Assignment: 9th Naval Construction Regiment
Personal: He and wife Roxanne Starr have two grown children
FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas — Most of the time, Senior Chief Construction Electrician (SCW/FMF) Lauro A. Garza doesn’t know the veteran being laid to rest at the national cemetery here.
But that doesn’t matter, because when Garza puts his Box Stradivarius trumpet to his lips, the haunting notes of “Taps” fill the air in a final tribute, a tribute he believes is the least he can do for a comrade.
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