Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs Chairman Jon Tester (D-MT) will participate as a bugler in a special Daily Taps performance at the National World War I Memorial in the Nation’s Capital this Monday, April 8, at 5:00pm Eastern Time. The U.S. World War I Centennial Commission and the Doughboy Foundation invited Senator Tester to accompany descendants of the nicknamed “U.S. Army Hello Girls” at the performance. 

Senator Tester is an original co-sponsor of the legislation to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the World War I Hello Girls, the legendary female telephone operators of the War who patched through some 26 million calls using their budding telephone technology skills and fluency in the French language. For more information about the event and the history behind it, click here for Word or here for PDF. View the event online via the Doughboy Foundation’s YouTube channel here.