“I feel like it’s my way of giving back...Anytime I’m asked to do it, I will gladly do it." IBERIA PARISH (NEW IBERIA) — From a tune that signals lights-out, to a military funeral hymn, 'Taps' holds a ...

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 ...

LAS VEGAS ( KLAS ) – There are different ways to honor the men and women who’ve given their lives in service to our country Traditionally, it’s the playing of Taps at military services. Sometimes ...

Josiah Inghram joined the 130th Pennsylvania Regiment in the fall of 1862, at the age of 17. He trained in Harrisburg under Col. Henry Zinn and was quickly ordered to Antietam, where his regiment saw ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon, chronically short of musicians to play taps at military funerals, is going to test the use of a new "push button" bugle that can be operated by an honor guard member.

Have you ever wondered why you hear a bugle playing taps every evening on Army bases around the world? Playing taps is a tradition going back to the Civil War when the tune was first heard at Harrison ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — To honor Memorial Day, local musicians and band students from across the Lowcountry gather on the flight deck of the U.S.S. Yorktown to play Taps as part of 'Taps Across ...

On Memorial Day, several Fleet Farms honoring fallen Veterans with volunteer buglers playing Taps. This is a decade long tradition, of playing Taps Across America. The brief ceremony includes a moment ...

May 25—CHAMPAIGN — Music has always been a big part of Logan Parks' life. Singing Disney songs and taking piano lessons as a kid kick-started a path for the 2021 Champaign Central graduate to excel as ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — William Russell, 16, is a Boy Scout who can play a trumpet. Those happen to be two qualities (service and music) that make him the perfect candidate for the Taps For Tuition ...