Pershing sounded taps at 11:00 a.m. on November 11, 1918, signaling the end of World War I. The bugle bears the marks of age and much use. Countless soldered repairs are visible along the assorted ...

But the 24 notes of taps, lasting about 30 seconds, were sounded not by a musician with a bugle, but on a compact disc player placed discretely out of sight. With too few musicians available to ...

Norton followed Butterfield's instructions, and after a few tweaks, what resulted was the U.S. military's most popular bugle call of them all: Taps. "There is something singularly beautiful and ...

brings his bugle to his lips and slowly sounds out the 24 notes of the bugle call, "taps." When finished, he tucks the bugle under his arm, salutes and marches away. As one of the Army Band's ...

WASHINGTON -- Taps, the plaintive bugle call sounded at many military funerals, has earned widespread Congressional support for designation as the National Song of Remembrance. One line in a thick ...

So we come to taps, the military bugle call. A post this week talked about how taps gets a singular verb even though it looks plural. A commenter said taps is the name of a song and should be ...