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 ...

Have you ever wondered why you hear a bugle playing taps every evening on Army bases around the world? Playing taps is a tradition going back to the Civil War when the tune was first heard at Harrison ...

The military bugle playing taps can send Terry Buraas back in time, he said. Buraas, a member of the American Legion Post 157 honor guard in East Grand Forks, hears the melancholy call about 40 to 60 ...

A Mound man honors veterans on Memorial Day and throughout the year. Gary Marquardt plays “Taps” at veterans’ funerals all across Minnesota. “These things happen just once in a lifetime for those ...

Daniel Butterfield could not read or write music, but he knew what he liked. A brigadier general in the Union Army who would go on to receive the Medal of Honor in 1892 for gallantry during the Civil ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Ready to welcome tourists back, Polish’s southern city of Krakow has recruited two more trumpeters to play the city’s trademark bugle call every hour from the tower in St. Mary’s ...