S.F. cop plays taps to honor fallen officers
Patrolman Mark Lundin is a sniper on the Specialist Team, but that is not the specialty that makes him unique to the San Francisco Police Department.
Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle SFPD patrolman and trumpeter Mark Lundin plays taps at police officers' funerals.
Lundin is also the department specialist when it comes to playing taps, the slow and mournful bugle call that puts a somber end to Memorial Day ceremonies and funerals for soldiers and police officers killed in the line of duty. It was one of these tragedies, in 1994, that compelled Lundin to pick up the trumpet that he hadn’t played in public since he was in the marching band at Cubberley High School in Palo Alto in the 1970s.
“The word got around that I knew how to play taps,” he says, “and I’ve been the go-to guy ever since.”
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