From the hillside grave site in Arlington National Cemetery, Army Sgt. Keith Clark could see John F. Kennedy's vast funeral cortege crossing Memorial Bridge toward him. He could see the flag-wrapped ...

The Department of Defense is studying the use of a "digital" bugle to render taps at veterans' military funerals. The digital unit won't replace trained buglers, but it is an alternative to the audio ...

Ronald Reagan will have his own bugle. After Army Sgt. Maj. Woodrow English finishes playing taps at Reagan’s California gravesite tonight, he will donate his bugle to the Reagan family. That will end ...

Few things touch my soul more than the somber notes of TAPS beside the graves of veterans I’m burying. Several years ago, in the dead of winter, I was laying to rest a longtime friend. The honor guard ...

The owners of Tennant Funeral Home & Crematory, Dave Tennant, David Tennant, and Justin Tennant recently donated a new ceremonial bugle to the Jake Uhrig VFW Post 3541 and American Legion Post 20 in ...

The 24 musical notes are among the most spare and eloquent in the world: Few do not respond to taps, the simple bugle call that signals the final farewell at a military funeral. The call has gotten a ...

Korean War veteran Michael Del Vecchio Sr., 90 of Dover plays Taps on his vintage bugle at veterans funerals which he considers a more fitting tribute than a record version that honor guards usually ...

“It just seemed that after what they’ve given, that wasn’t much to ask,” he says.Almost every day 68-year-old Gary Marquardt plays “Taps” at the graves of veterans. About a hundred times a year he ...

WASHINGTON -- From the hillside grave site in Arlington National Cemetery, Army Sgt. Keith Clark could see John F. Kennedy's vast funeral cortege crossing Memorial Bridge toward him. He could see the ...