My FIL died last week and is being buried on this com­ing Fri­day. He was a retired Colonel in the USA Infantry, a vet­er­an of WW2, a for­mer pro­fes­sor at the War Col­lege and the Indus­tri­al Col­lege, and a West Point Grad­u­ate. Because of the Cor­na virus, there will only be a small grave­side ser­vice. The fam­i­ly has request­ed a bugler from the local mil­i­tary base to play taps. The base has request­ed a copy of his cer­tifi­cate of hon­or­able dis­charge. We can’t find it but do have his retired mil­i­tary ID which has a retire­ment ID num­ber, and his DOD ben­e­fits num­ber. There is a lot of paper to sort through and we are not hope­ful about find­ing that par­tic­u­lar piece of paper in time to arrange a bugler from the base. I know that there is a pro­ce­dure for request­ing a dupli­cate copy of the cer­tifi­cate but I expect that will take a lot longer than we have. Any sug­ges­tions are welcome.