Few things touch my soul more than the somber notes of TAPS beside the graves of veterans I’m burying. Several years ago, in the dead of winter, I was laying to rest a longtime friend. The honor guard ...

Ronald Reagan will have his own bugle. After Army Sgt. Maj. Woodrow English finishes playing taps at Reagan’s California gravesite tonight, he will donate his bugle to the Reagan family. That will end ...

From the hillside grave site in Arlington National Cemetery, Army Sgt. Keith Clark could see John F. Kennedy's vast funeral cortege crossing Memorial Bridge toward him. He could see the flag-wrapped ...

The owners of Tennant Funeral Home & Crematory, Dave Tennant, David Tennant, and Justin Tennant recently donated a new ceremonial bugle to the Jake Uhrig VFW Post 3541 and American Legion Post 20 in ...

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 ...

The 24 musical notes are among the most spare and eloquent in the world: Few do not respond to taps, the simple bugle call that signals the final farewell at a military funeral. The call has gotten a ...

Somber but lilting, the music of taps echoes through the rolling hills of the Washington Crossing National Cemetery on weekdays as a bugler honors a current or former member of the armed forces being ...

Tom Day of Berwyn feared the 24 notes that make up "Taps" were endangered because the military does not have enough buglers to play at the funerals of the 1,800 veterans who die each day. The ...

WASHINGTON — From the hillside gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery, Army Sergeant Keith Clark could see President John F. Kennedy’s vast funeral cortege crossing Memorial Bridge toward him. He ...