N.J. musician plays last tribute for veterans. Korean War veteran Michael Del Vecchio Sr., 90 of Dover plays Taps on his vintage bugle at a ceremony in 2022.

Scotty Mills has a reverence for "Taps" that runs especially deep. "Here's a veteran, recently widowed, learned how to play the bugle when he was 70 years old, and now he plays it at memorials ...

The opening night of the event, which coincides with Memorial Day, featured the famous 24-note bugle call, Taps, echoing across the battlefields where more than 7,000 soldiers lost their lives ...

Instead, he picked up his bugle and began playing live renditions of TAPS, rejecting the use of automated recordings common at many services. “TAPS is simple, just four notes,” Fischer said.

The battered old brass bugle William Miles spotted in the basement rafters when he was 12 was the beginning of a 40-year career playing taps. The short, 24-note tune adapted ...

Continuing that Premer-Hardy taps tradition will get bit easier. While Hardy enjoyed playing college soccer, he decided after last semester to return to Kearney and those 24 bugle notes.