Taps for TV Newsman Jerry Barsha

It was a dramatic photo on the front page of Saturday’s New York Times: a lone bugler, framed against the Manhattan skyline, playing to honor the victims of 9/11 on the eighth anniversary of the tragedy.  But the thousands lost in 2001 weren’t the only people bugler Kim Bonsanti was honoring. She was playing taps also for Jerry Barsha, the Syracuse veteran television newsman who had died a day earlier while undergoing treatment at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. Read more.