WTMJ – (WTMJ) World War II veteran Tom Sitter made a promise to his friend Eddie Toporsh 14 years ago.
Titter told Toporsh he would visit his grave and play "Taps" after he died.
Toporsh died in 2002.
As the years went on following his death, Sitter said the promise he made kept eating away at him.
"In a way, I felt a little guilty about not doing it but I knew Eddie where ever he is would understand," said Sitter. "But the more I thought about it, I've been out here many times, and I thought damnit I'm going to do it."
That promise was finally fulfilled on Thursday when Sitter traveled to the Southern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Union Grove to visit Toporsh's grave.
It'd been more than 70 years since Sitter has played the bugle.