Taps is instantly recognizable as the somber 24-note bugle call played at American military funerals and ceremonies. Hartman and Villanueva hope that the nationwide event, now in its second year, will ...

I never knew.. DID YOU? If any of you have ever been to a military funeral in which taps was played; this brings out a new meaning of it. Here is something Every American should know. We in the United ...

Daniel Butterfield could not read or write music, but he knew what he liked. A brigadier general in the Union Army who would go on to receive the Medal of Honor in 1892 for gallantry during the Civil ...

Editor's Note: This story originally ran in May of 2017. Last month Gary was named state director of Bugles Across America, an organization that finds volunteer buglers for the funerals of veterans.

WASHINGTON — Every day a lone bugler stands at the World War I Memorial across the plaza from a statue of Army Gen. John Pershing. The bugler salutes the American flag, lifts a simple brass instrument ...

Jasmine Lopez was 6 years old when her father, Army Sgt. Luis Lopez, died while stationed in Germany on Oct. 16, 2011. At the time, she couldn’t fully comprehend his death. “I just thought, ‘He’s gone ...

RICHMOND, Va. — The 24 notes of Taps, so familiar to the ear, are melodic yet solemn in their simplicity. Stewart Boone, a 98-year-old bugler, does not need sheet music anymore. The veteran of the ...

TAPS Gold Star Advocacy Week and Congressional Reception, September 25th - 29th, 2023. Behind each devastating death in the military community is a family left to grieve an immense loss. Standing ...

A viral and false Facebook post from 2014 about the origins of the military's bugle melody known as "Taps" is receiving a new surge of shares. The old post tells a fabricated Civil War story of a ...