As the live bugler for Parma’s American Legion Ohio Post #572, Del Holdash was inspired to do something special for America’s ...

WASHINGTON -- Taps, the plaintive bugle call sounded at many military funerals, has earned widespread Congressional support for designation as the National Song of Remembrance. One line in a thick ...

Frank A. Blazich Jr. | Curator, Military History, National Museum of American History At the Arc de Triomphe in 1919, Edwards blew “Taps” in honor of the fallen for their service and their sacrifice.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May 22—Gene Horner spent much of his life honoring veterans with his bugle at countless Alaska memorial and burial ceremonies. On ...

On a warm sunny day at Resurrection Cemetery in southwest suburban Justice, everything was in place for a military honors ceremony for World War II veteran Steven Polus. The casket was draped with an ...

FIRST, YOU should know that Anthony VanCampen did not set out to be a bugler. He was working on the destroyer Berkeley in 1989 when the chief engineer of the ship, the man who had played taps for ...

To prepare for the day he’d been waiting for, John Blair donned a white and black service uniform. He polished his silver trumpet, the one he first played back in 1985 as a high school junior. He ...

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 ...

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 ...