Taps historian Jari Villanueva, a former ceremonial bugler at Arlington National Cemetery, discusses the evolution of the song and the meaning of Memorial Day.

If a live bugler isn’t available, the law allows a recorded version of “Taps” to be played and the ceremonial bugle, which has an electronic insert to play the song.

A bugler from the Army Band, "Pershing's Own", plays “Taps” during a Presidential Armed Forces full honors wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National ...

An electronic insert. “The insert is the key part of the bugle,” Rubio said. “You can get any bugle to look the part but the insert is what plays taps and other songs.” ...

Jari Villanueva, an Air Force veteran and bugler, is director of the Doughboy Foundation, a nonprofit that will recognize the 1,000th sounding of taps at the World War I Memorial in Washington, D ...

The central role that Daniel Butterfield played in taps was largely unknown until the late 19th century, only coming to light after a magazine article in 1898.

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 ...

“It just gives me so much pride to blow real Taps on a bugle,” says Navy veteran and bugler David R. Vigil. Vigil plays the bugle for several New Mexico honor guards.

Bugler Lou DiLeo plays taps at Calverton National Cemetery in Calverton. Cuts by the New York National Guard to funding for civilian contractors who staff military funerals will eliminate the ...

He always finishes with taps — a chilling, 24-note salute that is traditionally played by a lone bugler or trumpeter at funerals of U.S. military veterans.

Taps is the most familiar of the military bugle calls, a piece crafted by Union Gen. Daniel Butterfield for the Third Brigade, First Division, Fifth Army Corps in the Army of the Potomac in 1862 ...