Larry Herron played taps for his first military funeral when he was 16. It was at Arlington National Cemetery. He saw the rows and rows of white grave markers that stretch across the rolling lawn and ...

Although associated with military funerals, the minute-long bugle call known as “taps” actually dates to the Civil War, during which it signaled “lights out” in camps at night. Recorded bugling has ...

The solemn U.S. military bugle call "Taps" originated with a Union Army father finding the melody written on paper in the pocket of his deceased Confederate soldier son. Rating: False (About this ...

FORT GREGG-ADAMS, Va. — When the fabric of America, star-spangled, is presented in a tight, triangular fold. When the grand, old flag is carried on a casket and set down by pallbearers, and when the ...

HAMPTON - Rex Aldinger remembers playing taps at a military funeral when it was 30 degrees below, so cold he stayed inside a car and stuck his cornet out the window.

GETTYSBURG, Pa. — Memorial Day was commemorated in Gettysburg with the start of the ninth annual "100 Nights of Taps" to honor the more-than 23,000 Union soldiers who died on the battlefield during ...

John Schmitt is a bugle boy, though there’s no boogie woogie in his repertoire. Schmitt, of Baltimore, is a bugler for the state of Maryland who has sounded taps at some 2,000 funerals. He’s also one ...