Hartley Edwards Played “Taps” on this Bugle After World War I to Honor the Fallen But the bugler remembered the story a bit wrong. A century later, a curator sets the record straight ...

As the sun begins to set, the melancholy sound of a bugler playing "Taps" echoes off the old brick buildings on the town square in Martinsville, Indiana. A small crowd, mostly comprised of ...

Instead, taps blares from a CD player or a device called a ceremonial bugle, which is a real bugle containing a battery-powered sound generator in the bell-shaped front of the instrument.

Taps historian Jari Villanueva, a former ceremonial bugler at Arlington National Cemetery, discusses the evolution of the song and the meaning of Memorial Day.

1 / 6 Show Caption + Musician Brian Kanner stands with a Civil War-era bugle during the "Birth of an American Tradition -- the 150th Anniversary Commemoration of Taps" celebration June 22-24 at ...

It looks like it’s taps for Bugle Boy [“Bugle Boy Sinks Under Heavy Debt,” Feb. 2]. In the military that means lights out. I guess it means the same thing in the business world, except they ...

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 ...

The hauntingly eloquent and mournful bugle call known as taps was composed and first played in the summer of 1862.

Sgt. Major Woodrow "Woody" English is a bugler with the U.S. Army Band. He played "Taps" at the Memorial Service this summer for President Ronald Reagan. Fred talks with English about the bugler's ...

Jari Villanueva, an Air Force veteran and bugler, is director of the Doughboy Foundation, a nonprofit that will recognize the 1,000th sounding of taps at the World War I Memorial in Washington, D ...