The military has used dozens of different bugle calls over the years to mark the time of day and to direct troop activities. Most of them are unfamiliar to the average person. However, it would be ...

Of all the military bugle calls, none is so easily recognized or more apt to render emotion than “Taps.” Across the United States today, services are being held to honor the courageous men and women ...

Gary Edmondson first took up his horn to play “Taps” at a military funeral in 1946. He’ll play it again at a funeral service scheduled over the Fourth of July weekend as the 81-year-old veteran has ...

At some homes and neighborhoods across the Williamsburg area, the celebrated and emotional bugle call of “Taps” was heard at 3 p.m. Monday afternoon as part of “Taps Across America,” a growing ...

Military memorials would not be complete without a bugler playing taps. In Stockton, Rick Caccam is the area’s go-to guy when a musician is needed for that timeless tune. Caccam is a retired San ...

Nacogdoches native Glenn Johnson, 62, has been giving back to the community for 10 years by playing “Taps” at funeral and memorial services on his collectors item 1966 Conn Connstellation Trumpet.

COLUMBUS — The passing of her father prompted Jill Goedeken to taking part in ceremonies honoring other fallen veterans. When her dad died in 2001, Goedeken and her sister, Jan Went, gave tribute to ...

A viral and false Facebook post from 2014 about the origins of the military's bugle melody known as "Taps" is receiving a new surge of shares. The old post tells a fabricated Civil War story of a ...

BRISTOL, Va. - It is a tradition that is slowly fading away, but one bugler will not let it die on his watch. Bugler Tom Johnson tells News 5 he missed being drafted into the war by seven days and was ...