Have you ever wondered why you hear a bugle playing taps every evening on Army bases around the world? Playing taps is a tradition going back to the Civil War when the tune was first heard at Harrison ...

Thousands of musicians — civilians, veterans, teenagers, retirees — are playing taps at military funerals in a rebuke of ...

Defiance VFW Post 3360 has purchased a new electronic horn which allows honor guard members who are not musicians to sound taps at military funerals and graveside services. The instrument employs a ...

The playing of Taps on a bugle is perhaps one of the most recognized pieces of music, but at many veterans funerals, mourners usually hear a recording. Korean War veteran Mike Del Vecchio Sr., of ...

PREMONT, Texas — A bugle playing is a common sound at military ceremonies and events, and there’s a way for groups to have a bugle playing with little to no training. The Premont Veterans Association ...

The military bugle playing taps can send Terry Buraas back in time, he said. Buraas, a member of the American Legion Post 157 honor guard in East Grand Forks, hears the melancholy call about 40 to 60 ...

A Mound man honors veterans on Memorial Day and throughout the year. Gary Marquardt plays “Taps” at veterans’ funerals all across Minnesota. “These things happen just once in a lifetime for those ...

Moments before thoroughbreds bound out of the Pimlico gates and stride across the historic track, the triumphant ring of Justin Nurin’s bugle cuts through the crowd. The progression of notes heralding ...

INDIANAPOLIS – There’s nothing quite like 325,000 people falling silent in an instant, waiting for the somber notes of a single bugle playing “Taps” in the biggest sports stadium in the world on a ...