On Monday, the somber and familiar call of “Taps” will honor military veterans who made the ultimate sacrifice.

Trumpeters, buglers and musicians across the country will pause at 3 p.m. Monday to honor fallen U.S. military members by ...

Each Memorial Day, Taps for Veterans hosts an annual remembrance for fallen service members called Taps Across America. It is ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Six 14-year-old Scouts from Troop 600 paid respects to a fallen military service member, who died at their age, during the Revolutionary War in Guilford County. On Memorial Day, the ...

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 ...

Americans might hear a bugle playing a piece called taps each Memorial Day. Tony Dokoupil has the story about an effort to ...

Bryson Held is the only bugler on Pensacola Naval Air Station, and he's also an increasingly rare breed at military funerals and commemorations such as those on Memorial Day. When Held plays the ...

With the nearly night sky at his back, Everett’s Kevin McKay raised a plastic cup for a toast — “So here’s to hope” — then brought the horn to his lips. And like he’s done every evening for a year, ...

A U.S Army bugler plays taps during a funeral service at Arlington National Cemetery in this file photo. PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS File photo It’s a familiar yet haunting melody. Twenty-four notes. A ...