Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The solemn U.S. military bugle call "Taps" originated with a Union Army father finding the melody written on paper in the pocket ...

A visually impaired West Fargo woman who plays taps at military funerals has started a petition to try to convince the city's Veterans of Foreign Wars club to reconsider its decision to no longer use ...

If you are visiting a departed loved one in Greensburg's South Park Cemetery at dawn or dusk, you’ll hear the bugle call “Taps” played from atop the mausoleum in center of the cemetery. There is no ...

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 ...

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 ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- "Day is done, gone the sun, From the lake, from the hills, from the sky; All is well, safely rest, God is nigh..." The words from "Taps" may not be readily familiar but the tune ...

The decision by the West Fargo VFW Post 7564's honor guard to dispense with its volunteer bugler to play taps at veterans' funerals is more than a little perplexing. It's downright sad. The decision, ...

In some instances, when a bugler isn’t available, a recording is used. A national organization called Bugles Across America is attempting to keep the tradition of live Taps alive. Through it, ...

Playing taps on a boombox at a military funeral is just not the same as having someone in a dress uniform stand at attention and blow into a brass bugle. That's why S&D Consulting, based in New York ...

MANKATO — A bugler will play in honor of fallen soldiers 3 p.m. today at Fleet Farm, 1850 Premier Drive. The Mankato store is among several Fleet Farm stores partnering with Taps for Veterans for the ...