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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 ...
Thousands of musicians — civilians, veterans, teenagers, retirees — are playing taps at military funerals in a rebuke of ...
ANNVILLE, Pa. (WHTM) – How do we honor the men and women of our military, who recorded years — even decades — of service? More and more, the sounds you hear at armed forces funerals have been recorded ...
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 ...
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, ...
The bugler stands at attention, places the brass horn to his lips, and the bell resonates the sound of ``Taps'' over solemn tombstones, its notes haunting, clear and sharp. It's a dignified and ...
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 ...
Bryson Held is the only bugler on Pensacola Naval Air Station, and he's also an increasingly rare breed at military funerals and commemorations such as those on Memorial Day. When Held plays the ...