Though other stories of its origin persist, taps is likely a variation of an end-of-the-day bugle call that dates back to at least 1835. Jari Villanueva, former director of a taps exhibit at Arlington ...

ARLINGTON, Va. — During wreath laying ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Master Sgt. Matthew Byrne marches out to the Tomb, brings his bugle to his lips and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The solemn U.S. military bugle call "Taps" originated with a Union Army father finding the melody written on paper in the pocket ...

If you are visiting a departed loved one in Greensburg's South Park Cemetery at dawn or dusk, you’ll hear the bugle call “Taps” played from atop the mausoleum in center of the cemetery. There is no ...

(In the southeast corner of the 2,000-acre Sakura Park in New York City stands a bronze statue of Maj. Gen. Daniel Butterfield, a Civil War hero born and raised in Utica. It was sculpted by Gutzon ...

The bugle call known as taps is 24 hallowed notes long. My dad was a World War II Army veteran. At the close of his funeral service, a soldier stood on the crest of a small nearby hill and played taps ...

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 ...

Meet at the flagpole for a national moment of remembrance to honor our fallen heroes. You will hear a live version of the Taps bugle call played at 3:00 Monday ...

OTTAWA, Ill. (AP) -- Every veteran deserves to have the traditional bugle call of ``Taps'' played at their funeral. And in La Salle County, Alex Smith is ready to oblige. Smith is a member of Bugles ...

It woke them up and put them to bed. In between, it called them to assembly, to morning drills and to the mess hall. Years ago, the toot-toot-toot-a-toot of the bugle was as familiar on military bases ...