Ten trumpet students at a Louisiana university are offering to play Taps at veterans’ funerals, rather than leave the haunting farewell bugle call to a mechanical device. “A lot of people get a ...

Ten trumpet students at a Louisiana university are offering to play Taps at veterans' funerals, rather than leave the haunting farewell bugle call to a mechanical device. "A lot of people get a ...

GOODRIDGE, Minn. (AP) - The Rev. Bob Dahlen recalls the first time he was asked to play taps at a funeral. He was a teenager living in International Falls when he got a call to go to the principal's ...

Defiance VFW Post 3360 has purchased a new electronic horn which allows honor guard members who are not musicians to sound taps at military funerals and graveside services. The instrument employs a ...

In this Jan. 25, 2019, photo, music education major and trumpet student Kody Jernigan of Longview, Texas, plays "Taps," at the funeral of retired Ouachita Parish District Fire Chief Tommy "Cotton" ...

SOLON SPRINGS -- Taps, the haunting cue for lights-out at American military and civilian camps, is also a traditional final salute to those who have died -- a tradition dating back to the Civil War ...

LOUSIVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- One Hendricks County, Indiana, man is making sure families feel especially honored on Memorial Day if one of their loved ones who served in the military has been laid to rest ...

Elmer Hayes of Wisconsin first learned how to play as a favor for a teacher. — -- For decades, trumpet player Elmer Hayes has been honoring fallen service members with taps. Hayes, 91, knows the ...

Trumpeter John Massari of South Greensburg can’t say for certain how many times he’s performed taps with the VFW Post 33 Honor Guard in Greensburg. But considering Massari, 79, has performed “on and ...