Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The military has used dozens of different bugle calls over the years to mark the time of day and to direct troop activities. Most ...

WASHINGTON — Every day a lone bugler stands at the World War I Memorial across the plaza from a statue of Army Gen. John Pershing. The bugler salutes the American flag, lifts a simple brass instrument ...

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 ...

As the sun begins to set, the melancholy sound of a bugler playing "Taps" echoes off the old brick buildings on the town square in Martinsville, Indiana. A small crowd, mostly comprised of veterans ...

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 ...

ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY — Military and state funerals include the playing of Taps, usually by a lone bugler. There is a shortage of buglers today, however, so the solemn music often is performed ...

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 ...

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 ...

With the nearly night sky at his back, Everett’s Kevin McKay raised a plastic cup for a toast — “So here’s to hope” — then brought the horn to his lips. And like he’s done every evening for a year, ...

Fifty years ago this month, a U.S. Army bugler from East Grand Rapids flubbed a note during a solo rendition of taps at a funeral. Had the mistake happened during anyone other than John F. Kennedy’s ...

BERKELEY PLANTATION, Va. (June 29, 2012) -- In early July of 1862, elements of Gen. George McClellan's Army of the Potomac recovered in defeat at Harrison's Landing after failing to take the ...