WASHINGTON — Chronically short of musicians for military funerals, the Pentagon has approved a push-button bugle that plays taps by itself as the operator holds it to his lips. Only about 500 ...

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 ...

The taps sounded so real that Daniel McKenna of Philadelphia, who attended the funeral, said he did not realize it was a recorded version played on an electronic bugle because the real bugler ...

He got his brigade bugler, a 22-year-old by the name of Oliver Wilcox Norton, to help him revise that earlier bugle call into those 24 notes that we know today as "Taps." KEYES: All right.

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 ...

At some homes and neighborhoods across the Williamsburg area, the celebrated and emotional bugle call of “Taps” was heard at 3 p.m. Monday afternoon as part of “Taps Across America,” a ...

The playing of Taps on a bugle is perhaps one of the most recognized pieces of music, but at many veterans funerals, mourners usually hear a recording. Korean War veteran Mike Del Vecchio Sr., ...

Gene Horner spent much of his life honoring veterans with his bugle at countless Alaska memorial and burial ceremonies. On Tuesday, it was Horner who was honored, as another bugler sounded taps ...