Let’s get real. What Memorial Day means to most people is a three-day weekend. There’s nothing wrong with that. It makes good sense to make it the last Monday in May instead of May 30. God bless the ...

Somber but lilting, the music of taps echoes through the rolling hills of the Washington Crossing National Cemetery on weekdays as a bugler honors a current or former member of the armed forces being ...

At its heart, the military bugle call taps is a tune of comfort. Even when sounded at the most solemn time — the funeral of a fallen soldier or sailor — it’s meant to assure: The day is done, it’s ...

(WSPA) – Taps Across America enlisted buglers and trumpeters to participate in their event Monday honoring fallen soldiers. Taps Across America said Sound Taps promote recognition to fallen soldiers ...

Today we know taps as the solemn melody played by buglers at our military funerals. But that's not how the simple, 24-note tune got its start. The origin of taps is a little fuzzy, but there's one ...

Every morning before work, and before sunrise, David Dodson sits in his car, garage door closed, and practices playing his trumpet for 30 minutes. He always finishes with taps — a chilling, 24-note ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – People around America ...

Dale Sprosty raised his trumpet to his lips, closed his eyes and fulfilled a dream at Arlington National Cemetery by sounding taps Friday at the tomb of unknown Civil War soldiers. Sprosty of Mount ...

This short melody refined 157 years ago resonates to those familiar with military life. At funerals conducted at military and civilian cemeteries, the sound of taps permeates the still air, thus ...

Jonathan W. Pierce I am always amazed at the relationship between sound and memory. Much like the old science experiment between Pavlov and his dog (does that ring a bell?), the influence of sound ...