Korean War Navy veteran Michael Del Vecchio Sr., age 90, plays live Taps on his bugle at veterans funerals as a fitting tribute, instead of the typical recorded version of Taps. The former ...

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 ...

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.

Steve Walker's bugle cut through the distant hum of passing planes as a crowd stood at attention during the Memorial Day ceremony at Houston National Cemetery. Walker performed "Taps," the ...

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 ...

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 ...