Ten trumpet students at a Louisiana university are offering to play Taps at veterans’ funerals, rather than leave the haunting farewell bugle call to a mechanical device. “A lot of people get a ...

LOUSIVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- One Hendricks County, Indiana, man is making sure families feel especially honored on Memorial Day if one of their loved ones who served in the military has been laid to rest ...

Hundreds of American veterans die each day and each of them unquestionably earned the honor of having “Taps” played during their burial ceremony as a final tribute for their sacrifice. “It's the most ...

Trumpeter John Massari of South Greensburg can’t say for certain how many times he’s performed taps with the VFW Post 33 Honor Guard in Greensburg. But considering Massari, 79, has performed “on and ...

KEARNEY, Neb. — A band instructor at Kearney High School is recruiting students to help fill the need for buglers at military funerals. Rick Mitchell discovered the shortage after performing at ...

In this Jan. 25, 2019, photo, music education major and trumpet student Kody Jernigan of Longview, Texas, plays "Taps," at the funeral of retired Ouachita Parish District Fire Chief Tommy "Cotton" ...

Funerals are not something I attend for fun. The two words are, after all, pretty much antonyms. It is a fact that often funerals are the only occasion at which I get to see many of my relatives these ...

For Jena Pennington Memorial Day was never just another day. In her eyes, it is a day to honor fallen veterans who died giving their service to the United States military. But five years ago, her ...

, which is played at military funerals. The story said during the Civil War, a father discovered his dead son on the battlefield, and the music was in the boy's pocket. The tale was moving, but I seem ...