Last Post

As I approached the war memorial this evening, I heard the unmistakable first notes of the Last Post played on a bugle.
The memorial was flanked by two British Legion flag bearers with their flags lowered to the ground, and a small group of people stood in a semi-circle with their heads bowed as the bugler played.
There was a moment's silence, another short bugle call, and the flags were lifted.

I don't know what they were commemorating, but it was quite an eerie scene, under the full moon.