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

Memorial Day is about honoring the men and women who will forever be remembered as having made the ultimate sacrifice. We honor those military members, and so does the Coastal Bend. The Veterans Band ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Of all the military bugle calls, none is so easily recognized or more apt to render emotion than “Taps.” Across the United States ...

Several Capital Region musicians have sounded a call for more volunteers to play taps during military funerals honoring veterans, military retirees and active-duty personnel. Allen Moon, of Gansevoort ...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - Memorial Day may kick off summer, but it’s really a day to remember the Americans who never came home. Unlike Veterans Day, it’s dedicated to those who made the ultimate ...

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 ...

Korean War veteran Michael Del Vecchio Sr., 90 of Dover plays Taps on his vintage bugle at veterans funerals which he considers a more fitting tribute than a record version that honor guards usually ...

BATH, N.Y. -- It began with three haunting notes from a teenage girl. A second bugler, about 100 yards down the road, picked up the tune. And then a third. More than 850 buglers, trumpeters and other ...

For over a week this summer, a Beaumont man stood at Rogers Park and played taps on the bugle to remember service members who will never return home. “That was after the botched Afghanistan withdrawal ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — An 88-year-old Spokane man played Taps for the final time this March after 25 years of performing at servicemember burials at the Washington State Veterans Cemetery. According to the ...

The central role that Daniel Butterfield played in taps was largely unknown until the late 19th century, only coming to light after a magazine article in 1898. Daniel Butterfield could not read or ...

Bugler Master Sgt. Allen Moon performed at hundreds of military funerals. Bugler Campbell Whitford has volunteered to play the 21-note taps at more than 450 military funerals. Several Capital Region ...