Several Capital Region musicians have sounded a call for more volunteers to play taps during military funerals honoring ...

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – There are few tunes more recognizable than the solemn song that brings a close to a military funeral. Taps is only 24 notes, but the brief melody is sure to stir emotion as its ...

Defiance VFW Post 3360 has purchased a new electronic horn which allows honor guard members who are not musicians to sound taps at military funerals and graveside services. The instrument employs a ...

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 ...

SOUTHAVEN, Miss. (AP) - Every morning before work, and before sunrise, David Dodson sits in his car, garage door closed, and practices playing his trumpet for 30 minutes. He always finishes with taps ...

About a dozen times over the last two years, Jack Bumann has gone to cemeteries in western Illinois to help honor military veterans he never met. A high school trumpet player in the small town of ...

, 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 ...