The rifle shots ring over the cemetery followed quickly by the melancholy notes of a lone bugler. He plays “Taps,” the traditional music played at the grave site of a military service veteran. While ...

Another Memorial Day has come and gone in Ithaca’s ramshackle nineteenth-century civic graveyard that sprawls over some twenty hillside acres between the flats of downtown and the campus of Cornell ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Washington: Chronically short of musicians for military funerals, the US Defence Department has approved the use of a "push button" ...

WASHINGTON — Chronically short of musicians for military funerals, the Pentagon has approved a push-button bugle that plays taps by itself as the operator holds it to his lips. Only about 500 buglers ...

In July 1862, after the Seven Days battles near Richmond, Va., the wounded commander of the 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 5th Army Corps of the Army of the Potomac, Gen. Dan Butterfield, and his bugler, ...