A bugler from the Army Band, “Pershing’s Own”, plays "Taps” during an Armed Forces full honors wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery ...

Union Army Brig. Gen. Daniel Butterfield, who is credited with revising the bugle call that we know as 'taps,' earned the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Gaines' Mill, Virginia ...

Bugle calls have a significant history that reaches back long before the Continental Army used them during the nation's war against England in the 18th century. Stroupe said they were used simply ...

An Army Bugler Plays 'Taps' On this holiday honoring American military members who have given their lives, Fred Child talks with Army Sgt. Maj. Woody English, ...

While it's not quite time to play "Taps" for the Army bugler, Uncle Sam is having a hard time finding enough musicians to play the ceremonial honor at an increasing number of military funerals.

This music was made the official Army bugle call after the war, but not given the name “taps” until 1874. Taps was played at the funeral of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson 10 months after ...

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 ...

An Army bugler’s story about his special wartime assignment. In the final days of World War II, U.S. Army Sgt. Harrison Wright was stationed in a small Belgian village near the German border.

Army Reserve Sergeant First Class Eric Stroupe is set to travel from Fort Knox, Kentucky to France, where he will perform at memorials commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day. NBC News ...

Standing near the gravestone for the relative he never met, Mark Bailey accepted the crisply folded American flag from the ...

NZ Army Band Reserve Corporal The bugle had the name “Aaron” etched on its side, in memory of former New Zealand Army Major Aaron Couchman , who was killed in a cycling accident in Canberra in ...

In the final days of World War II, U.S. Army Sgt. Harrison Wright was stationed in a small Belgian village near the German border. He tells his grandson, Sean Guess, about a special assignment in ...