Sentence:  For Marvin Goulding , like Giovanni Martini , the bugler boy who carried Custer 's last <WSD>message</WSD> , or Margarito Lopez , the one-man Army on Leyte , was a Garryowen , through and through . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a communication (usually brief) that is written or spoken or signaled