I read with interest the editorial about using a live bugler at military funerals. My husband is a humble man. He is an 88-year-old veteran of World War II. He does not ask for much, but his one ...

EAST HANOVER TOWNSHIP, LEBANON COUNTY, P.A. --- "Taps" is a remembrance song Navy veteran and trained bugler David Drayer knows well. "Every one I play...I've played, like I say, thousands, is special ...

NEW YORK – While it's not quite time to play "Taps" for the Army bugler, Uncle Sam is having a hard time finding enough musicians to play the ceremonial honor at an increasing number of military ...

Richard Grogan slipped on white gloves before lifting his bugle from its case. Built to the 74-year-old Army reservist and Navy veteran’s liking, the 4-year-old brass instrument has been Grogan’s ...

ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY — Military and state funerals include the playing of Taps, usually by a lone bugler. There is a shortage of buglers today, however, so the solemn music often is performed ...

When Manchester Marine Ryan McCaughn was laid to rest last month, taps rang out in the cemetery. The song, written by a Union general during the Civil War, is sounded at every veteran’s funeral, as ...

The bugler leading The Last Post at the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral said it is an “honour and privilege” to perform the poignant role. Sergeant Bugler Jamie Ritchie, I/C Corps of Drums, Royal Marines, ...

Surrounded by a thick fog on the hallowed ground of Arlington National Cemetery last week, more than 100 buglers paid homage to the lesser-known veteran who had sounded “Taps” five decades ago as a ...

Action Stations, which is sounded on naval warships to signal all hands must go to battle stations, will be played at the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral at his specific request. Buglers of the Royal ...

April 18, 1945, the island of Ie Shima in the Pacific. Pvt. Albert Ronca, a 24-year-old from Roseto, stood with his fellow soldiers at an impromptu funeral, getting ready to bury a man wrapped in an ...

TOLEDO – Army bugler Keith Clark waited for hours on that cold day in 1963 to play one last time for the president – his president. This somber duty, the sounding of taps at military ceremonies and ...

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 ...