Several Capital Region musicians have sounded a call for more volunteers to play taps during military funerals honoring veterans, military retirees and active-duty personnel. Allen Moon, of Gansevoort ...

BATH, N.Y. -- It began with three haunting notes from a teenage girl. A second bugler, about 100 yards down the road, picked up the tune. And then a third. More than 850 buglers, trumpeters and other ...

The bugler said her song was a tribute to lives lost and a prayer of safety for those who remained. In 2002, Julie Neria, a volunteer bugler, donned her uniform every evening to perform “Taps” in her ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — An 88-year-old Spokane man played Taps for the final time this March after 25 years of performing at servicemember burials at the Washington State Veterans Cemetery. According to the ...

Korean War veteran Michael Del Vecchio Sr., 90 of Dover plays Taps on his vintage bugle at veterans funerals which he considers a more fitting tribute than a record version that honor guards usually ...

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 ...

Bugler Master Sgt. Allen Moon performed at hundreds of military funerals. Bugler Campbell Whitford has volunteered to play the 21-note taps at more than 450 military funerals. Several Capital Region ...